And is alive (κα ανεζησεν). First aorist active indicative of αναζαω, to live again. Literally, he was dead and he came back to li…

Was dead. This is capable of two meanings:

1. I supposed that he was dead, but I know now that he is alive.
2. He…

This my son was dead.—The words, looked at merely as part of the story, have a wonderful pathos. Absence, alienation, the…

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…

For this my son was dead
These words contain the reasons of the above entertainment, and of all that spiritual joy a…

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 …