And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
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Gill's Exposition
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together,.... That his father had divided to him, all his goods and substance: as soon as a man has any internal substance, any considerable degree…
Barnes' Notes
Gathered all together - Collected his property. If he had received flocks or grain, he sold them and converted them into money. As soon as this arrangement had been made he left his father’s house.…
Adam Clarke
Not many days after - He probably hastened his departure for fear of the fine which he must have paid, and the reproach to which he must have been subjected, had the matter come before the civil…
We have here the parable of the prodigal son, the scope of which is the same with those before, to show how pleasing to God the conversion of sinners is, of great sinners, and how ready he is to…
Cambridge Bible
not many days after This shadows forth the rapidity (1) of national, and (2) of individual degeneracy. "In some children, says
Sir Thomas Elyot in The Governour, "nature is more prone to vice than to…
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