Culpepper well describes this parable as a drama in three acts (Luke, 316):

• Act 1 – a tableau during which the characters are introduced and their way of life is described, but nothing happens
• Act 2 – the rich become poor and the poor become rich as each character has died and received their eternal reward
• Act 3 – narration give way to dialogue, but between the rich man and Abraham, in three exchanges:
  • about the finality of judgment
  • about the witness of Moses and the prophets
  • about the blindness that prevents even the Resurrection from leading to conversion

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