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The son said to him, `Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your son.`
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An Interrupted Confession
Multiple commentators, including Spurgeon and Robertson, highlight that the father interrupts the son's speech. The son confesses his sin and unworthiness, but the father's kiss and command for a robe stop him before he can ask to be a servant. This shows that God's grace is so eager and overwhelming that it moves faster than our full confession and gives us more than we dare to ask.
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The son made his speech of confession as planned, but it is not certain that he was able to finish as a number of early manuscripts do not have "Ma…
19th Century
Anglican
Father, I have sinned against heaven. The iteration of the very same words comes to us with a wonderful power and pathos. The contrite sou…
Baptist
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his nec…
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
Father, I have sinned against heaven. Here another branch of repentance is pointed out: a conviction of sin accompanied by grief and shame…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the son said unto him, father Or "my father", as the Syriac version reads; and the Persic version adds, "pardon …
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Presbyterian
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 …
