Luke 18:24 hiding purgatory?

[ISinner]

I have question about the scripture. Luke 18: 24. Here what it says:
(NAB) Jesus looked at him (now sad) and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
(KJB) And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
(Douay Rheims) And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God.

My question is: what does the word “hard/hardly” mean? What is this hardly way of entering the heaven? Isn’t this a reference to the purgatory?

Proposed interpretation to start the discussion: Jesus is talking about those wealthy people who died, and try to enter the heaven. But they are having difficult time (or hard time). If so, then what are those difficulties? Doesn’t this suggest that they will pay a high price for their sins? Since they are to be saved, doesn’t that suggest purification?

 

[Nickkname]

I have question about the scripture. Luke 18: 24. Here what it says:
(NAB) Jesus looked at him (now sad) and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
(KJB) And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
(Douay Rheims) And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God.

My question is: what does the word “hard/hardly” mean? What is this hardly way of entering the heaven? Isn’t this a reference to the purgatory?

Proposed interpretation to start the discussion: Jesus is talking about those wealthy people who died, and try to enter the heaven. But they are having difficult time (or hard time). If so, then what are those difficulties? Doesn’t this suggest that they will pay a high price for their sins? Since they are to be saved, doesn’t that suggest purification?

Jesus is speaking about how attachment to wealth makes entry into the Kingdom of God nearly impossible. The key to intreptation is His words “You cannot serve two masters; you cannot serve both God and mammon.” (Mammon = wealth, property)

 

[guanophore]

I have question about the scripture. Luke 18: 24. Here what it says:
(NAB) Jesus looked at him (now sad) and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
(KJB) And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
(Douay Rheims) And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God.

My question is: what does the word “hard/hardly” mean? What is this hardly way of entering the heaven? Isn’t this a reference to the purgatory?

Proposed interpretation to start the discussion: Jesus is talking about those wealthy people who died, and try to enter the heaven. But they are having difficult time (or hard time). If so, then what are those difficulties? Doesn’t this suggest that they will pay a high price for their sins? Since they are to be saved, doesn’t that suggest purification?

Purgation is the burning away of all that within us that is not of God, for nothing impure can enter heaven. We can have this purgation now, as Jesus was offering the rich young man, or later. We must be freed of our attachment to things other than God, as He said, you cannot serve both God, and mammon. For some, this attachment is hard to break, but for others, it is easy.

 

[CatsAndDogs]

I have question about the scripture. Luke 18: 24. Here what it says:
(NAB) Jesus looked at him (now sad) and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
(KJB) And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
(Douay Rheims) And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God.

My question is: what does the word “hard/hardly” mean? What is this hardly way of entering the heaven? Isn’t this a reference to the purgatory?

Proposed interpretation to start the discussion: Jesus is talking about those wealthy people who died, and try to enter the heaven. But they are having difficult time (or hard time). If so, then what are those difficulties? Doesn’t this suggest that they will pay a high price for their sins? Since they are to be saved, doesn’t that suggest purification?

My opinion is that this world can be a purgatory, if we’re smart, which gives us an opportunity to lessen the “pain” of our eventual heavenly purgatory.

“The rich”, which really means “the miserly”, who discover that they need to use their treasure for the benefit of humanity can make it easier for themselves in purgatory by “purging” themselves of their wealth, which may be “painful” in earthly terms, by using it for Godly purposes.

 

[Henning]

Check out the Greek:
dus is kind of like a prefix …

δυσκολως hard/hardly (Lk 18:24, Mt 19:23, Mk 10:23)
δυσβαστακτα hard to bear (Lk 11:46)
δυσερμηνευτος hard to be uttered (Heb 5:11)
δυσνοητα hard to be understood (2Pet 3:16)

in Latin δυσκολως is translated as “difficile” ~ difficult