I will arise and go to my father The youth in the parable had loved his father, and would not doubt about his father's love; and in the region which the parable shadows forth, the mercy of God to the returning penitent has always been abundantly promised. Is. 4:7; Jeremiah 3:12; Hosea 14:1-2 ,&c.; and throughout the whole New Testament.

Father, I have sinned "Repentance is the younger brother of innocence itself." Fuller, Holy War.

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