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LUKE 15:16 cortasqh/nai evk {B}
On the basis of age and diversity of text-type of witnesses, the
Committee preferred the reading cortasqh/nai evk....
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Verse Luke 15:16. _WITH THE HUSKS_] κερατιων. _Bochart_, I
think, has proved that κερατια does not mean _husks_: to
signify which the Greek botanical writers use the word λοβοι;
several examples of w...
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HE WOULD FAIN - He would gladly. He desired to do it.
THE HUSKS - The word “husks” with us denotes the outward covering
of grain. In this there is little nourishment, and it is evident that
this is no...
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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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WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED. was longing to fill.
WITH. from. Greek. _apo._ App-104.
HUSKS. pods of the carob tree. Only here in N.T.
DID EAT. were eating.
AND. Note the emphasis of the Figure of speec...
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_he would fain_ Literally, _"he was longing."_
filled his belly with The plain expression purposely adopted to add
the last touch to the youth's degradation gave offence to some
copyists, who substit...
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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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ΓΕΜΊΣΑΙ ΤῊΝ ΚΟΙΛΊΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂�. אBDL, &c.
Other MSS. have softened it into χορτασθῆναι ἐκ. See
note.
16. ἘΠΕΘΎΜΕΙ. “_He was longing_.”
ΓΕΜΊΣΑΙ ΤῊΝ ΚΟΙΛΊΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂� … Vulg[291]
_cupiebat implere ventrem...
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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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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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HE WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED HIS BELLY WITH THE HUSKS— The version of
1729 renders the word κερατιων, by _Carruways,_ or the fruit
of the _Carub_ tree, which bore a mean, though sweetish kind of fruit,
i...
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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 he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine
did eat: and no man gave unto him.
AND HE WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED HIS BELLY WITH THE HUSKS [ toon (G3588
) keratioon (G2769 )] T...
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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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15:16 husks (e-10) The word translated 'husks' is a food called St.
John's bread; it was eaten by animals and sometimes by destitute
persons....
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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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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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HE WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED] i.e. and did so. HUSKS] i.e. the pods of
the carob-tree, eaten only by the very poorest people. AND NO MAN GAVE
UNTO HIM] food of any kind....
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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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HE WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED HIS BELLY. — It is singular that very many
of the best MSS. give the simpler reading, “desired to be filled or
satisfied.” It is open to suppose either that they shrank from...
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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 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 crisis_ : recklessness leads to misery and misery prompts
reflection....
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ἐπεθύμει, etc., he was fain to fill his belly with the
horn-shaped pods of the carob-tree. The point is that he was so poorly
fed by his new master (who felt the pinch of hard times, and on whom
he ha...
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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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_Husks. This expresses the extreme misery of his condition. There is
no need of seeking any other mystery in this word. Horace, by a kind
of hyperbole, (B. ii, Ep. 1.) represents the miser as living u...
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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 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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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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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 HE WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED HIS BELLY WITH THE HUSKS,....
חרובא, the fruit of the "Charub" tree, as the Syriac version
interprets it; and which the Jews y say is מאכל בהמה, "the
food of beasts": tho...
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And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine
did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Ver. 16. _And he would fain have filled his belly_] The stomach of man
is a monster (saith one...
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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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HUSKS; large pods growing on the carob-tree. They have a sweetish
pulp, and small seeds like beans. Swine are fed on them, and poor
people sometimes eat them....
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Folly and repentance:...
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AND HE WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED HIS BELLY WITH THE HUSKS THAT THE SWINE
DID EAT; AND NO MAN GAVE UNTO HIM....
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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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Luke 15:16 And G2532 gladly G1937 (G5707) filled G1072 (G5658) his
G846 stomach G2836 with G575 pods...
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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 15:16. WOULD FAIN HAVE FILLED HIS BELLY. Many ancient authorities
read: ‘would fain have been filled,' and this may be the correct
reading, but does not alter the sense. The literal translation o...
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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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HE WOULD FAIN HAVE BEEN FILLED
(επεθυμε χορτασθηνα). Literally, he was desiring
(longing) to be filled. Imperfect indicative and first aorist passive
infinitive. Χορτασθηνα is from χορταζω and that...
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Luke 15:15
I. Whether it be a natural nobleness, or an acquired refinement, the
one, the direct gift of God; the other, an indirect creation of the
Gospel it is seldom forfeited all at once. Step by...
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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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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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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 he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine
did eat._ So those who foolishly squander their possessions on others,
find none to give them even husks in their misery and want...
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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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Hosea 12:1; Isaiah 44:20; Isaiah 55:2; Isaiah 57:3; Jonah 2:2;...
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He would fain [ε π ε θ υ μ ε ι]. Longing desire. Imperfect
tense, he was longing, all the while he was tending the swine.
Filled his belly [γ ε μ ι σ α ι τ η ν κ ο ι λ ι α ν].
The texts vary. The Rev....
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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 would fain have filled his belly with the husks — He would fain
have satisfied himself with worldly comforts. Vain, fruitless
endeavour!...