It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
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Gill's Exposition
It was meet that we should make merry,.... Both father, son, and servants; See Gill on Luk 15:23, Luk 15:24 and this elder brother also, because of the relation he stood in to him: and if he had had…
Adam Clarke
This thy brother - Or, This brother of Thine. To awaken this ill-natured, angry, inhumane man to a proper sense of his duty, both to his parent and brother, this amiable father returns him his own…
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
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad "They glorified God...saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life," Act 11:18. It would be impossible to mark more…
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