Luke 15:17

εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἐλθὼν = either, realising the situation; or, coming to his true self, his sane mind (for the use of this phrase vide Kypke, Observ.). Perhaps both ideas are intended. He at last understood there was no hope for him there, and, reduced to despair, the human, the filial, the thought of home and father revived in the poor wretch. περισσεύονται : passive, with gen. of the thing; here only in N.T. = are provided to excess, have more given them than they can use.