Luke 15:18. I will arise. Correct reflection led to remembrance of the father, that feeling led to resolve and corresponding action. The will is turned: he proposes to leave the far country.

I have sinned. There can be no return to God which does not include the confession of sin.

Against heaven and in thy sight (as in Luke 15:21), in relation to this. The two are separated in the parable, but are to be identified in the interpretation. He alone really confesses his sins, who has regarded them mainly as sins against God, against a higher, heavenly order of things ; and this is the best sign that a sinner has come to himself.

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Old Testament