Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Luke 15:31

τέκνον. Child. The elder brother is still a ‘child’ of his father, however erring.

σὺ πάντοτε μετ' ἐμοῦ εἶ. ‘Thou (emphatic) always art with me.’

πάντα τὰ ἐμὰ σά ἐστιν. So far as the elder son is sincerely “a doer of the law” he is “justified,” Romans 2:13. All that his father had was his. To him belonged “the adoption, and the glory, and the Shechinah, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom after the flesh Christ came, who is God over all, blessed for ever,” Romans 9:4-5. Religionists of the Elder-brother type cannot realize the truth that they are not impoverished by the extension to others of God’s riches (Matthew 20:14). Let us hope that after this appeal the elder son also went in.

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Luke 15:31

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