The [[name]] Lazarus (from the [[Hebrew]]: אלעזר, Elʿāzār, Eleazar - "[[God]] (has) helped") is also given to a second figure in the [[Bible]]: in the [[narrative]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_and_Dives Lazarus and Dives], attributed to [[Jesus]] in the [[Gospel of Luke]]. Also called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_and_Dives Dives and Lazarus], or The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus, the [[narrative]] tells of the [[relationship]] (in life and in [[death]]) between an unnamed [[rich]] man and a poor [[beggar]] named Lazarus. While the two characters named Lazarus have sometimes been conflated historically, they are generally [[understood]] to be two separate characters. Allusions to Lazarus as a poor [[beggar]] taken to the "Bosom of [[Abraham]]" should be [[understood]] as referring to the Lazarus mentioned in [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], rather than the Lazarus raised from the dead in John. | The [[name]] Lazarus (from the [[Hebrew]]: אלעזר, Elʿāzār, Eleazar - "[[God]] (has) helped") is also given to a second figure in the [[Bible]]: in the [[narrative]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_and_Dives Lazarus and Dives], attributed to [[Jesus]] in the [[Gospel of Luke]]. Also called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_and_Dives Dives and Lazarus], or The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus, the [[narrative]] tells of the [[relationship]] (in life and in [[death]]) between an unnamed [[rich]] man and a poor [[beggar]] named Lazarus. While the two characters named Lazarus have sometimes been conflated historically, they are generally [[understood]] to be two separate characters. Allusions to Lazarus as a poor [[beggar]] taken to the "Bosom of [[Abraham]]" should be [[understood]] as referring to the Lazarus mentioned in [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], rather than the Lazarus raised from the dead in John. |