This thy son
(ο υιος σου ουτος). Contempt and sarcasm. He does not say: "This my brother."Came
(ηλθεν). He does not even say, came back or came home.Devoured
(καταφαγων). We say, "eaten up," but the Greek has, "eaten down" (perfective use of κατα-). Suggested by the feasting going on.With harlots
(μετα πορνων). This may be true (verse Luke 15:13), but the elder son did not know it to be true. He may reflect what he would have done in like case.
Verse Luke 15:30. _THIS THY SON_] THIS son of THINE - words expressive of supreme contempt: THIS _son _- he would not condescend to call him by his _name_, or to acknowledge him for his _brother_; and...
THIS THY SON - This son of “thine.” This is an expression of great contempt. He did not call him “his brother,” but “his father’s son,” to show at once his contempt for his younger brother, and for hi...
CHAPTER 15 __ 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...
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...
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...
THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
THY SON. Not "my brother". Contrast with "thy brother" (Luke 15:32). WAS COME. came as though. stranger. Not "returned". DEVOURED. eaten up. Contrast with Luke 15:23. THY. Malignant thought. HARLOT...
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...
_this thy son...which hath devoured thy living with harlots_ Every syllable breathes rancour. He disowns all brotherhood; and says -came" not - _returned,_" and tries to wake his father's anger by say...
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...
THE SON LOST AND FOUND...
Ὁ ΥἹΌΣ ΣΟΥ ΟὟΤΟΣ Ὁ ΚΑΤΑΦΑΓΏΝ ΣΟΥ ΤῸΝ ΒΊΟΝ ΜΕΤᾺ ΠΟΡΝΩ͂Ν. Every syllable breathes rancour. He disowns all brotherhood; and says “came,” not “_returned_;” and tries to wake his father’s anger by saying “...
Ver 25. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. 27. And he...
ΟΎΤΟΣ этот. Используется с презрительным оттенком, ΚΑΤΑΦΑΓΏΝ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΚΑΤΕΣΘΊΩ (G2719) поедать, пожирать. Прист. является перфектной....
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...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 The Lost Pharisaical Son (Luke 15:25-32) 25 Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26And he called one...
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. BUT AS SOON AS THIS THY SON WAS COME, WHICH HATH DEVOURED THY LIVING WIT...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AS SOON AS THIS THY SON WAS COME. — The feeling of discontent passes into scorn and bitterness. The sin of the wanderer is painted at once in the coarsest and darkest colours. The very turn of the phr...
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...
οὗτος : contemptuous, this precious son of yours. μετὰ πορνῶν : hard, merciless judgment; the worst said and in the coarsest way. How did he know? He did _not_ know; had no information, jumped at conc...
_The elder son_, who plays the ignoble part of wet blanket on this glad day, and represents the Pharisees in their chilling attitude towards the mission in behalf of the publicans and sinners....
_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...
THE SON WHO NEVER CAME TO HIS FATHER Luke 15:25-32 Notice the difference between the Father's care for his elder son and the son's own estimate of his position, and you will see how easily you may m...
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...
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...
_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...
_The elder Son._ This part embraces: 1 _st._ The interview of the elder son with the servant (Luke 15:25-28 a); 2 _d._ His interview with his father (Luke 15:28; Luke 15:28). Jesus here shows the Phar...
VERS. 28B-32. This interview contains the full revelation of pharisaic feeling, and brings into view the contrast between it and the fatherly heart of God. The procedure of the father, who steps out t...
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...
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...
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...
BUT AS SOON AS THIS THY SON WAS COME,.... He will not own him in the relation of a brother, though the father had owned him in that of a son; and the offence he took was, that the fatted calf should b...
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. Ver. 30. _But as soon as this thy son_] He saith not, this my brother; he...
_But he answering, said to his father_ The kindness and respect which his father showed him on this occasion, did not soften him in the least. He stubbornly persisted in his anger, and answered the af...
THIS THY SON; an expression of scorn and pride. He refuses to say. This my brother. DEVOURED THY LIVING; squandered the property assigned to him....
BUT AS SOON AS THIS THY SON WAS COME, WHICH HATH, DEVOURED THY LIVING WITH HARLOTS, THOU HAST KILLED FOR HIM THE FATTED CALF....
The older son:...
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...
25-32 In the latter part of this parable we have the character of the Pharisees, though not of them alone. It sets forth the kindness of the Lord, and the proud manner in which his gracious kindness...
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Luke 15:30 But G1161 as G3753 this G3778 son G5207 yours G4675 came G2064 (G5627) who G3588 devoured...
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...
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...
Luke 15:30. WHEN THIS THY SON CAME. He will not say ‘brother.' In expressing contempt of his brother the greatest sin against his father is uttered; so Pharisees sin most heinously against God in thei...
Luke 15:25-32. THE ELDER SON. The other side of the picture is equally appropriate to the occasion. The murmuring Pharisees are now to see themselves portrayed. Alford: ‘This part of the parable sets...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Most of us recognize the beauty of this parable as it concerns the prodigal, and his boundless forgiveness by the father, but few of us probably have seen how the elder brother has his portrait painte...
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...
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...
THE OLDER SON. He is symbolic of the Pharisees and teachers of the Law in Luke 15:2. He is also symbolic of some Christians who fall into the trap which James speaks about (James 4:1-4). The older son...
_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...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 15:30 THIS SON OF YOURS. The older brother refuses to acknowledge the prodigal as his brother. ⇐...
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...
_This thy son._.. _which hath devoured thy living with harlots._ The Pharisees accuse God of sin, in preferring the unworthy to the worthy, _i.e._, Gentiles to the Jews, sinners to themselves, as if H...
_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....
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,...
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...
Exodus 32:11; Exodus 32:7; Luke 15:13; Luke 15:22; Luke 15:23;...
This thy son. Not my brother, but with the bitterest sarcasm. Was come [η λ θ ε ν]. He says came, as of a stranger. Not returned. Devoured [κ α τ α φ α γ ω ν]. We say "eat up;" the Greek said "eat d...
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...