The fatted calf (τον μοσχον τον σιτευτον). The calf the fatted one. Σιτευτον is the verbal adjective of σιλευω, to feed with wheat…

Be merry. Literally, "eating, let us rejoice." The word merry does not quite express the meaning of the Greek. Merriment denotes …

Bring hither the fatted calf.—It is interesting to remember the impression which this part of the parable made on one of …

And put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: for this my son…

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…

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill
it By which Christ is designed, in allusion to the calves offered in sacr…

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 …