For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
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Gill's Exposition
For this my son was dead,.... These words contain the reasons of the above entertainment, and of all that spiritual joy and mirth; in which the father acknowledges the returning penitent as his son;…
Barnes' Notes
Was dead - This is capable of two significations: “I supposed” that he was dead, but I know now that he is alive. He was “dead to virtue” - he was sunk in pleasure and vice.
The word is not…
Adam Clarke
Was dead - Lost to all good - given up to all evil. In this figurative sense the word is used by the best Greek writers. See many examples in Kypke.
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
was dead, and is alive again The metaphor of -death" to express the condition of impenitent sin is universal in the Bible. "Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead," Rev 3:1. "Awake thou that…
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