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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:8

8. What woman The woman here is the Lamb’s wife, the Church. But if we adopt the interesting view that, while the shepherd is the Son of God, the woman the Holy Spirit, and the father in the last parable is God the Father Almighty, then we may view this woman as the Church, in which the Holy Spirit dwells, and through which it works. Then as the Son was incarnated in the Christ, and the Father embodied in creation, so the Holy Spirit is here impersonated in the living Church of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:8-11

PARABLE SECOND. The Lost Piece of Money The self-forgotten sinner, the heathen, Luke 15:8-11. Jesus was the seeker not only of the Israelite publican, the sheep of the flock, who was stupid and wandering though conscious, but he sought the sinner, the heathen, perhaps, who was self-forgotten and unconscious. Both these classes he, no doubt, found here by the shores of the Jordan. The former belonged to his domestic, the latter to his foreign, mission. To this last class Luke himself may... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:9

9. Her friends and her neighbours Here the Church is perhaps a Church; we have a picture of the union of the various sections into which the universal Church must of necessity be divided; and it is a common rejoicing over the conversion of sinners and the triumphs of the cross. Rejoice with me Just as these Scribes and Pharisees ought to have rejoiced with Jesus when stupid Jewish wanderers, or senseless Gentile outcasts, listened to his gospel and renounced their sins. This joy of the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:11

PARABLE THIRD. The Prodigal Son The knowing and wandering sinner. 11. And he said This phrase may imply, by distinctly marking off the ensuing parable, that it was spoken at a different time from the two previous. We prefer to consider all three as occurring in parts of one discourse, though perhaps separated by intervening remarks which are not recorded. It is, we think, very probable that few or none of our Lord’s discourses are reported without some abridgement. This has been called... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:12

12. The younger According to a narrower view of genealogy the Jew is the older, and the Gentile the younger. But extending our view further back, we shall find that Abraham was the first Jew and that Adam was Gentile. Thence tracing the genealogy of Jesus back, according to Luke, he was the son of man, (and the word Adam in the Hebrew signifies man,) and not merely the son of Abraham. Younger of them As being least experienced and wise. His living Rather , the substance, the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:13

13. Not many days after This son has set up for himself, just as man desires to be independent of God. And being so, his next purpose is a due distance, where the will of God shall never seem to reach him, and if possible beyond the reach of his eye. Gathered all together His means were now all in a movable form, not in real estate; and he was fully prepared for a profligate squander. Riotous living The word here rendered riotous is used both in Latin and Greek, and expresses the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:14

14. Spent all In the original squandered all, just as he had previously (Luke 15:13) gathered all. A mighty famine The apostacy of man from God, of which this course of the son is an emblem, is the source of the evils which afflict human life, and the purpose of these evils is to bring the wanderer home first to himself and then to his father God. Want Happy for him that he was in want of what his father’s house could alone supply. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:15

15. Joined himself As yet he prefers the hireling’s lot in the abodes of sin to his filial place in the abodes of home. In his decision thousands persevere, and their souls are starved to eternal death. A citizen As he himself is an alien and a foreigner. Is not this citizen the devil or one of his angels? Is any man a citizen of the realm of sin? To feed swine To the Jew this is the very essence of moral abomination. “Cursed is he who feeds swine” was a Jewish malediction. And not to... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:16

16. Filled his belly For it is only his animal nature that man in his lost depravity is able to think of feeding or sustaining. Husks Rather pods. These were not, as the American reader is apt to imagine, the husks of maize, that is, of Indian corn. They are the fruit of the carob tree, and are from their shape called in the Greek little horns. From the popular notion that they were the food of John the Baptist, they are called St. John’s bread. Dr. Thomson describes them as... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:17

17. Came to himself For all this time he has been in an insanity or a dream. Would it were so; for then he would have been unfortunate or irresponsible. Had he but waked in the morning from a troubled dream, he would have smiled over his own imaginary miseries, and have gone down in a sweet morning innocence to meet his father’s kiss, from lips that spoke of love but not of forgiveness. He said The he who says this is the God-given reason, the secret conscience; long silent or unheard,... read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:8

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:8-11

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:9

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:11

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:12

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:13

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:14

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:15

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:16

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:17

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