Luke 15:32

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad "They glorified God...saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life," Acts 11:18. It would be impossible to mark more emphatically God's displeasure at the narrow, exclusive, denunciatory spirit which would claim for ourselves only, or our party, or our Church, a monopoly of heaven. The hard dogmatism and speculative theories of a self-asserting Theology "vanish like oppressive nightmares before this single parable in which Jesus reveals the heavenly secrets of human redemption, not according to a mystical or criminal theory of punishment, but anthropologically,

psychologically, and theologically to every pure eye that looks into the perfect law of liberty." Von Ammon, Leb. Jesu, iii. 50.

this thy brother For he isthy brother, and I thy Father, though thou wouldest refuse this name to him, and didst not address that title to me.