Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
not many days--intoxicated with his new--found resources, and eager for the luxury of using them at Will.
a far country--beyond all danger of interference from home.
wasted, etc.--So long as it lasted, the inward monitor (Isaiah 55:2) would be silenced (Isaiah 9:10; Isaiah 57:10; Amos 4:6-10).
riotous living-- (Luke 15:30), "with harlots." Ah! but this reaches farther than the sensualist; for "in the deep symbolical language of Scripture fornication is the standing image of idolatry; they are in fact ever spoken of as one and the same sin, considered now in its fleshly, now in its spiritual aspect" (Jeremiah 3:1-15; Eze. 16:1-17:24) [TRENCH].
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ezekiel 16:15
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