Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 15:28

"But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him." — Luke 15:28 (ASV)

And he was angry, and would not go in.—This, then, was the first feeling. He who professed obedience to his father is out of harmony with his father’s mind. He “shuts love out,” and, as by a righteous judgment, is himself “shut out from love.”