Scofield's Reference Notes - Luke 15:18
sinned Sin. (See Scofield " :-") . read more
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Luke 15:20
Many Kisses for Returning Sinners; The Prodigal's Return; The Turning Point; He Ran, and "He" Ran Many Kisses for Returning Sinners, or Prodigal Love for the Prodigal Son March 29th, 1891 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "And kissed him." Luke 15:20 . In the Revised Version, if you will kindly look at the margin, you will find that the text there reads, "And kissed him much." This is a very good translation of the Greek, which might bear the meaning, "Kissed him earnestly," or "Kissed... read more
Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 15:1-32
Chapter 15Then 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 that had gathered divided into two categories. First of all, the publicans and sinners. Publicans were tax collectors, the outcast of that society, one of the most hated persons in the community. They were considered by the Jews to be traders and quislings. And they were always classified... read more
Joseph Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 15:1-32
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 covenant of Sinai, which provided no atonement on the altar for their sins, though atonements were made for the foulest offenders by the beasts slain without the camp. When it was objected, that there was an atonement for David’s sin, they replied, that men in war leave their wives. This argument... read more
Joseph Exell
The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 15:11-32
Luke 15:11-32A certain man had two sons.The prodigal and his brotherI. GOD’S TREATMENT OF THE PENITENT. 1. The alienation of the heart from God. (1) Homelessness. (2) Worldly happiness is unsatisfying. Husks are not food. (3) Degradation. 2. The period of repentance. (1) The first fact of religious experience which this parable suggests to us is that common truth--men desert the world when the world deserts them. The renegade came to himself when there were no more husks to eat. He would have... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 15:17
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! Ver. 17. And when he came to himself ] For till then he had been beside himself, and not his own worthy. Nebulo rascal (saith one) cometh of Nabal; fool of φαυλος: ανοια et ανομια are of near affinity. Evil is Hebrew for a fool, &c. Wickedness is called the "foolishness of madness," Ecclesiastes 7:25 . read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 15:18
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, Ver. 18. Against heaven and before thee ] That is, I have not only thee, but the whole heaven for a swift witness against me of mine offences and outbursts. "The heaven doth declare mine iniquity, and the earth riseth up against me," Job 20:27 . read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 15:19
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. Ver. 19. I am not worthy ] So Austin, Domino, non sum dignus quem tu diligas. So another, Non sum dignus, Domino, sod sum indigens. Sense of misery must precede sense of mercy. Let God but hear such words as these fall from his Ephraims, and he will soon melt over them, Jer 31:19-20 Hosea 11:8 . Henry the son of our Henry II, crowned by his father, and rebelling against him, died before his father at Martel... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 15:20
20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. Ver. 20. When he was yet a great way off ] Tantum velis et Deus tibi praeoccurret, You may be so will and God will run to you, saith a Father. The prodigal was but conceiving a purpose to return, and God met him, Isaiah 65:24 . And kissed him ] One would have thought he should have kicked him, or have killed him rather, but God... read more
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Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 15:20-24
Luke 15:20-24 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 all. Does it not seem as if this same penitence and sorrow for misdoings were like to the pains of hunger in the body, which at once tells of weakness and waste and toil, and which at the same time prompts us to seek for refreshment and renewal of our fasting. But for the pangs of hunger urging us... read more