The best robe (στολην την πρωτην). Στολη is an old word for a fine stately garment that comes down to the feet (from στελλο, to pr…

The best robe. The son was probably in rags. The father's joy is expre ed by dre ing him in the finest garments, so that he might appear w…

Bring forth the best robe.—It is hardly nece ary, perhaps, in such a parable, to pre the symbolic interpretation of each minute de…

Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring …

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

The son’s speech was never completed (v.21). Instead the father more than reversed the unspoken part about becoming a “hired man” (v.19). What he g…

Bring out the best robe. Although in parables (as we have frequently observed) it would be pointless to analyze every minute circumstance,…

But the father said to his servants
The word "but", with which those words begin, is expressive of much grace, as it…

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 …