I will arise and go (αναστας προρευσομα). This determination is the act of the will after he comes to himself and sees his real co…

I will arise. This is a common expre ion among the Hebrews to signify embarking on an action. It does not imply that he was sitting, but t…

I will arise and go to my father.—This, then, was the firstfruits of repentance. He remembers that he has a father, and t…

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will a…

Gregory of Nyssa: The younger son had despised his father when he first departed and had wasted his father’s money. But ov…

“Came to his senses” seems to carry the Semitic idea of repentance. Certainly repentance lies at the heart of the words that the son prepared to te…

I will arise
This is the resolution which at last, through divine grace, he came into: he determines to quit the country, and …

Having viewed the prodigal in his abject state of misery, we are next to consider his recovery from it. This begins when he comes to himself. That …