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Verse Luke 15:14. _A MIGHTY FAMINE IN THAT LAND_] As he was of a
profligate turn of mind himself, it is likely he sought out a place
where riot and excess were the ruling characteristics of the
inhabi...
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A MIGHTY FAMINE - Famines were common in Eastern nations. They were
caused by the failure of the crops - by a want of timely rains, a
genial sun, or sometimes by the prevalence of the plague or of the...
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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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WHEN HE HAD SPENT. having spent. Greek. _dapanao._ Elsewhere _only_
Mark 5:26; Acts 21:24; 2 Corinthians 12:15.James 4:3.
IN. th
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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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_And when he had spent all Historically_,
"On that hard Roman world, disgust And secret loathing fell;
Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell."
M. Arnold.
_Individually_, "The limits...
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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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THE SON LOST AND FOUND...
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ΔΑΠΑΝΉΣΑΝΤΟΣ ΔῈ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΆΝΤΑ.
_Historically_,
“On that hard Roman world, disgust
And secret loathing fell;
Deep weariness, and sated lust
Made human life a hell.”
M. ARNOLD.
_Individually_, “Th...
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Ver 11. 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 goods that
fails to me. And he divided to them his living. 13. And not m...
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ΔΑΠΑΝΉΣΑΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΔΑΠΑΝΆΩ
(G1159) растрачивать, полностью тратить,
предполагается бесполезная трата,
расточительство (LN, 1:575). _Gen. abs._ ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ
_aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_...
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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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And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land;
and he began to be in want.
AND WHEN HE HAD SPENT ALL, THERE AROSE A MIGHTY FAMINE IN THAT LAND -
a mysterious providence holdin...
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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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THERE AROSE A MIGHTY FAMINE IN THAT LAND. — This again was no
unwonted incident. The famine which “came to pass in the days of
Claudius Cæsar” (Acts 11:28) was more extensive and memorable than
others...
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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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_The crisis_ : recklessness leads to misery and misery prompts
reflection....
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λιμὸς, a famine, an accident fitting into the moral history of
the prodigal; not a violent supposition; such correspondences between
the physical and moral worlds do occur, and there is a Providence i...
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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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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 liberty of self-enjoyment is not unlimited, as the sinner would
fain think; it has limits of two kinds: the one pertaining to the
individual himself, such as satiety, remorse, the feeling of
des...
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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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_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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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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AND WHEN HE HAD SPENT ALL,.... Sin strips a man of all that is good
and valuable; of the image of God, of the knowledge of divine things,
of natural holiness, of moral righteousness, and of strength t...
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And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land;
and he began to be in want.
Ver. 14. _And when he had spent all_] And left himself nothing at
all, _praeter coelum et coenum, _ bu...
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_And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together_
Having gotten possession of his fortune, he lost no time, but,
gathering together all he had, _took his journey into a far country_
Tha...
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Folly and repentance:...
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AND WHEN HE HAD SPENT ALL, THERE AROSE A MIGHTY FAMINE IN THAT LAND;
AND HE BEGAN TO BE IN WANT....
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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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11-16 The parable of the prodigal son shows the nature of repentance,
and the Lord's readiness to welcome and bless all who return to him.
It fully sets forth the riches of gospel grace; and it has b...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 15:11...
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“And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that
country, and he began to be in want, and he went and joined himself to
one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fie...
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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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Luke 15:13. Comp. Matthew 6:24. Since the proper use of wealth is for
God, those who do not thus use it are slaves to Mammon. The last verse
implies that wealth is not our own, this implies that when...
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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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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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Luke 15:14. AND WHEN HE HAD SPENT ALL. Probably very soon; the
enjoyment of sin is brief. But it is not necessarily implied that all
God's gifts are wasted before repentance. The picture of ‘misery'
b...
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WHEN HE HAD SPENT
(δαπανησαντος αυτου). Genitive absolute. The verb is
here used in a bad sense as in James 4:3. See on δαπανη Luke
14:28.HE
(αυτος). Emphasis.TO BE IN WANT
(υστερεισθα). The ver...
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Luke 15:14
I. All may be lost by one transgression. The heart of this young man
died away from his home. That home ceased to be sacred: the father was
no longer paramount. Grace was gone. Prayer was...
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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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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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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 15:11. _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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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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THEN A SEVERE FAMINE. The world cannot meet the deep spiritual needs
of mankind. TO TAKE CARE OF THE PIGS. This was just about as _low_ as
a Jew could get FEEDING PIGS! [They were religiously _unclean...
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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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_And when he had spent all_... _he began to be in want._ Or, according
to the Arabic, "he became destitute," as those who lose by one year's
debauchery all that their parents have left them; and after...
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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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2 Chronicles 33:11; Amos 8:9; Ezekiel 16:27; Hosea 2:9...
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Spent. See on cost, ch. 14 28.
In that land. Want is characteristic of the "far country." The
prodigal feels the evil of his environment. "He (with a shade of
emphasis) began to be in want."
To be i...
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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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He began to be in want — All his worldly pleasures failing, he grew
conscious of his want of real good....