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Verse Luke 15:24. _WAS DEAD_] Lost to all good - given up to all evil.
In this figurative sense the word is used by the best Greek writers.
See many examples in _Kypke_....
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WAS DEAD - This is capable of two significations:
* “I supposed” that he was dead, but I know now that he is alive.
* He was “dead to virtue” - he was sunk in pleasure and vice.
The word is not...
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CHAPTER 15
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1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1)
2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3)
3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8)
4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Br...
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LUKE 25. THREE PARABLES SHOWING GOD'S LOVE FOR THE LOST, AND HIS JOY
AT THEIR RESTORATION. The three parables in this chapter have no
definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied from L...
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Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them
said to his father, 'Father, give me the part of the estate which
falls to me.' So his father divided his living between them. Not ma...
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THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
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WAS. Not the past tense of the verb "die", but of the verb "to be". He
had been as. dead man (Greek. _nekros._ App-189) to his father.
IS FOUND. was; i.e. "when he came to himself" (Luke 15:17), which...
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Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of
Tolerance._
This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called
the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
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_was dead_, _and is alive again_ The metaphor of -death" to express
the condition of impenitent sin is universal in the Bible. "Thou hast
a name that thou livest and art dead," Revelation 3:1. "Awake...
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ΝΕΚΡῸΣ ἮΝ ΚΑῚ�. The metaphor of ‘death’ to express
the condition of impenitent sin is universal in the Bible. “Thou
hast a name that thou livest and art dead,” Revelation 3:1. “Awake
thou that sleepes...
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THE SON LOST AND FOUND...
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CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31
This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the
departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey
(probably to the Feast of the...
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Ver 17. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants
of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with
hunger! 18. I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him...
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ΌΤΙ (G3754) потому что. ήν _impf. ind. act. от_
ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΆΝΈΖΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΖΆΩ (G326) жить
заново, начинать новую жизнь (GI, 150).
ΆΠΟΛΩΛΏΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΌΠΌΛΛΥΜΙ (G6...
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DISCOURSE: 1545
THE PRODIGAL SON
Luke 15:23. _Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us
eat, and be merry. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he
was lost, and is found_.
THE wi...
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THIS MY SON WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE, &C.— It is by a very common and
beautiful emblem, that vicious persons are represented as dead, both
by sacred and prophane authors; (Compare 1 Timothy 5:6. Ephesia...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Lost Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-24)
11 And he said, There was a man who had two sons; 12and the younger of
them said to his father, -Father, give me the share of property t...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_The Parable of the Lost Son
Scripture_
Luke 15:11-32 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 and the
younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of thy
s...
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For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is
found. And they began to be merry.
FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE AGAIN; HE WAS LOST, AND IS
FOUND. Now, twice his son. "H...
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13 Compare Job_21:14-15.
17 Compare Jer_31:18-20.
17 The first desire of the prodigal and of all awakened sinners is to
do something themselves to ameliorate their evil condition. "What must
I do to...
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THE PRODIGAL SON (peculiar to Lk). 'This parable, like the two
preceding, is intended to show what joy there is in heaven at the
conversion of sinners, and, therefore, how wrong the Pharisees were to...
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PARABLES OF THE LOST SHEEP, OF THEM LOST COIN, OF THE PRODIGAL SON
1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12. The first of a
series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 15
*PARABLES OF GOD’S LOVE 15:1-32
1 INTRODUCTION 15:1-2
Jesus told three *parables as an answer to the *Pharisees. They did
not approve of him beca...
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THIS MY SON WAS DEAD. — The words, looked at merely as part of the
story, have a wonderful pathos. Absence, alienation, the self-chosen
shame, this had made the father think of the son as “dead.” Deat...
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CHAPTER 21
LOST AND FOUND.
IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from
their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending
the pulsations of new excitemen...
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_Return and reception_. ἦλθεν, etc., he came to his father; no
details about the journey, the fact simply stated, the interest now
centring in the action of the father, exemplifying the joy of a paren...
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_The third parable_, rather an example than a parable illustrating by
an imaginary case the joy of recovering a _lost human being_. In this
case care is taken to describe what loss means in the sphere...
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THE SON WHO “CAME TO HIMSELF” AND TO HIS FATHER
Luke 15:11-24
The pearl of parables! Too often we desire God's gifts apart from
Himself. _The far country_ is not far in actual distance, but in the
al...
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Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the
hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the
great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...
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_Was dead, and is come to life again. A sinner, in mortal sin, is
deprived of the divine grace, which is the spiritual life of the soul.
At his conversion it is restored to him, and he begins to live...
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THE PRODIGAL SON
Luke 15:11-32. “ _But He said_, _A certain man had two sons. The
younger of them said to the father_, _Father_, _give me the portion of
the estate which falleth to me. And he divided...
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_The younger Son._
This first part of the parable embraces four representations
corresponding to the four phases of the converted sinner's life: 1
_st._ Sin (Luke 15:11-13); 2 _d._ Misery (Luke 15:14-...
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_The Child lost and found._
This parable consists of two distinct descriptions, which form the
counterpart of one another, that of the younger son (Luke 15:11-24),
and that of the elder son (Luke 15:2...
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VERS. 20B-24. Free pardon, entire restoration, the joys of adoption,
such are the contents of these verses. The heart of God overflows in
the sayings of Jesus. Every word vibrates with emotion, at onc...
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And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said
to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to
me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days aft...
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The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but
the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was
working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men,
c...
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Having thus unfolded the difference in character between the two
dispensations, and the circumstances of the transition from the one to
the other, the Lord turns (chapter 15) to higher principles the...
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FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD,.... These words contain the reasons of the
above entertainment, and of all that spiritual joy and mirth; in which
the father acknowledges the returning penitent as his son; t...
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For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is
found. And they began to be merry.
Ver. 24. _For this my son was dead, &c._] So fareth it with every
faithful Christian. He was dead,...
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_For this my son was dead_ Was considered by me as dead; _and is alive
again_ “It is by a very common and beautiful emblem, that vicious
persons are represented as dead, both by sacred and profane aut...
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MY SON WAS DEAD-LOST; he was dead to excellence and to happiness and
dead as to being the means of either to his father's house. He was
lost to goodness, to duty, and to heaven.
ALIVE-FOUND; he has r...
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The return:...
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FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD AND IS ALIVE AGAIN; HE WAS LOST AND IS FOUND.
AND THEY BEGAN TO BE MERRY.
True repentance is not satisfied with resolutions, its sincerity must
be proved by actions. The young...
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SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP
(vs.3-7)
Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would
never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him
first. In this chapter we see t...
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17-24 Having viewed the prodigal in his abject state of misery, we
are next to consider his recovery from it. This begins by his coming
to himself. That is a turning point in the sinner's conversion....
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 15:23...
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Luke 15:24 for G3754 this G3778 my G3450 son G5207 was G2258 (G5713)
dead G3498 and G2532 again...
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“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring forth quickly the
best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on
his feet, and bring the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat,...
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THE PARABLE OF THE LOVING FATHER, THE PRODIGAL SON AND THE
DISSATISFIED BROTHER (15:11-32).
When we come to the third parable there is a different emphasis in
that the emphasis is laid, not on the see...
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THREE PARABLES DEALING WITH THE SEEKING AND SAVING OF THE LOST
(15:1-32).
It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this
section on preparing for the eternal future, and on the Ki...
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MEN MUST LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS
GLORY (15:1-19:28).
Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in
the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Sav...
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THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the
whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist.
A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
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THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON. ‘The crown and pearl' of all our
Lord's parables. It is an advance from the two which precede it. The
case of the sinner is represented as more aggravated: his guilt
g...
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Luke 15:24. WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE AGAIN. Even in the parable, the
father speaks figuratively of moral death ; much more in the
application is it true; the state of sin is a moral death, the state
of...
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AND IS ALIVE
(κα ανεζησεν). First aorist active indicative of
αναζαω, to live again. Literally, he was dead and he came back
to life.HE WAS LOST
(ην απολωλως, periphrastic past perfect active of
α...
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Luke 15:23
The Festival.
I. The feast which here took place denotes "the joy of a forgiving God
over a forgiven man, and the joy of a forgiven man in a forgiving
God." The one is a gracious revelatio...
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Luke 15:20
The Hunger of the Soul.
I. Why did God make it so natural for us all to grieve over the past,
and to lament so bitterly for sin? One way of looking at the matter
may be suggestive to us al...
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Luke 15:11. _And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger
of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that
falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not...
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We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us
have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always
find something fresh in it. It is ever bright and sparkling, full...
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Luke 15:1. _Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for
to hear him._
However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they
recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered aroun...
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This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within
itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best
exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wor...
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CONTENTS: Parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes.
CONCLUSION: God has a particular care over backsliding sinners (Isr.
in this case) and follows th...
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Luke 15:1. _Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him._
The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own
righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the
co...
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WHEN HIS FATHER SAW HIM. Up to this point the parable tells a story
that has happened many times in this world. Countless people have
acted like this younger son. But the real difference in this parab...
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_A certain man had two sons._
THE PRODIGAL AND HIS BROTHER
I. GOD’S TREATMENT OF THE PENITENT.
1. The alienation of the heart from God.
(1) Homelessness.
(2) Worldly happiness is unsatisfying. Hu...
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CHAPTER 15
Ver. 1. _Then drew near under Him all the publicans and sinners_.
_πάντες_, all, that is, many came together to hear Christ,
attracted by His sanctity and by the loving-kindness with which...
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_For this my son was dead, and is alive again._ He was dead by reason
of his sins; he is alive again because of his repentance.
VER. 28. _And he was angry, and would not go in._ The anger and the
mur...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 15:11. A CERTAIN MAN.—Our heavenly Father, since Christ never
represents Himself thus. He always speaks of Himself as a Son, though
often as a possessor, or lord. TWO SONS.—_I.e....
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 15:1
The _Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the _"lost," _in which
he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful._
LUKE 15:1,...
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Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. And
the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners,
and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2).
Notice the four groups tha...
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1 Corinthians 12:26; 1 Timothy 5:6; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Corinthians
5:15;...
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Is alive - is found [α ν ε ζ η σ ε ν - ε υ ρ ε θ η].
Both aorists, and pointing back to a definite time in the fast;
doubtless the moment when he "came to himself." Wyc., hath lived.
The Prodigal Son...
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CHRIST SEEKING TO SAVE
Luke 15:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable.
1. WE HAVE THE SHEPHERD SUFFERING AS HE SEEKS HIS SHEEP. The parable
describes...
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THE PRODIGAL SON
Luke 15:11
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The fifteenth chapter of Luke presents one parable with four
outstanding messages, embracing one supreme thought.
The supreme thought is Christ's answ...
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THE ELDER SON
Luke 15:24
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We come now to the study of the elder son. In doing this we think it
will be wise to give the dispensational picture a little stronger
setting than we ga...