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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Luke 15:11
"The Parable of the Lost Son" (Luke 15:11-32). The two preceding
parables represent Christ seeking for the lost; this, the sinner
seeking for the Father's house; all three, the rejoicing over
repentance.
A certain man had two sons. There is something in this inimitable
parable which goes straight to every human heart. It is almost
impossible to refuse an entrance to it. It storms the strongest
fortress of the soul, by its appeal to the latent sensibility to
impression, that dormant or sepulchered humanness which underlies in
every man his surface of passion or pride; it makes its way to the
sympathy of the rudest, and surprises the most callous into the emotion
which finds its best relief in tears. The child loves to hear its
simple and affecting story, and many a criminal whom crime has done its
worst to harden has been subdued by some stray hearing of its
experience, it seemed so like his own. (Punshon). In this parable the
father is the Heavenly Father; the elder son, the self-righteous, in
this case the Pharisees and scribes; the younger son, the sinful, in
this case the publicans and sinners.
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