ς δο ΚΑΤΑ AOYKAN XV.
11. Εἶπε δέ, ““AvOpwids τις εἶχε δύο υἱούς: 12. καὶ εἶπεν 6 ved--
τερος αὐτῶν τῷ πατρί, Πάτερ, δός µοι τὸ ἐπιβάλλον µέρος τῆς οὐσίας.
{1 Cor. xii. kat! Σδιεῖλεν αὐτοῖς τὸν βίον. 13. καὶ μετ οὗ πολλὰς ἡμέρας (as συναγαγὼν ἅπαντα ὁ νεώτερος vids ἀπεδήμησεν εἰς χώραν µακράν,. καὶ ἐκεῖ διεσκόρπισε τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ, ζῶν ἁσώτως. 14. δαπανή-
σαντος δὲ αὐτοῦ πάντα, ἐγένετο λιμὸς ἰσχυρὸς ” κατὰ τὴν χώραν
ἐκείνην, καὶ αὐτὸς ἤρξατο ὑστερεῖσθαι. 15. καὶ πορευθεὶς ἐκολλήθη
ἑνὶ τῶν πολιτῶν τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης: καὶ ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν εἰς τοὺς
ἀγροὺς αὐτοῦ βόσκειν χοίρους.
g here only
16. καὶ ἐπεθύμει γεµίσαι τὴν κοιλίαν
ANT. αὐτοῦ ὃ ἀπὸ “ τῶν ἕ κερατίων ὧν ἤσθιον οἳ χοῖροι: καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐδίδου
hereand ο ο in ver. το. αὐτῷ.
17. Eis ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐλθὼν εἶπειὃ Πόσοι " µίσθιοι τοῦ πατρός.
1 For και (ND, Tisch.) BL cop. have ο 8¢€(W.H.).
2 urxvpa in MABDL τ, 33, 131. 3 -yepioar . .
. avrov in ΑΡΩΧΓΔΛΠ, etc., codd. vet. Lat. vulg. syr. (Peshito)
sin. (Tisch.). χορτασθηναι in S$BDLR minusc. ἆ ε f syr. cur. (R.V., W.H., text).
4 εκ in texts which have χορτασθηναι. 5 S9BL 13, 69 al. have εφη.
rebuke your cynicism and melt your hearts? Yet such things are happening among these publicans and sinners you despise, every day.
Vv. 11-13. The case put. δύο viovs: two sons of different dispositions here as in Mt. xxi. 28-31, but there is no further connection between the two parables. There is no reason for regarding Lk.’s parable as an allegorical expansion of Mt.’s Two Sons (Holtzmann in H. C.).— Ver. 12. 6 νεώτερος, the younger, with a certain fitness made to play the foolish part. The position of an elder son pre- sents more motives to steadiness.—ré ἐπιβάλλον µέρος, the portion falling or belonging to, the verb occurs in this sense in late authors (here only in N.T.). The portion of the younger when there were two sons, would be one third, the right of the first-born being two portions (Deut. xxi. 17).---διεῖλεν: the father complies, not as bound, but he must do it in the parable that the story may go on.—Btov Ξοὐσίαν, asin Mk. xii. 44, Lk. viii. 43.— Ver. 13. μετ οὐ πολλὰς ἡμέρας: to be joined to ἀπεδήμησεν: he went away as soon as possible, when he had had time to realise his property, in haste to escape into wild liberty or licence.—paxpdav: the farther away the better.—aoatws (a pr. and σώζω, here only in Ν.Τ.), insalvably ; the process of reckless waste, free rein given to every passion, must go on till nothing is left. This is what undis- ciplined freedom comes to.
Vv. 14-19. The crisis: recklessness leads to misery and misery prompts re- flection.— Ver. 14. λιμὸς, a famine, an accident fitting into the moral history of the prodigal ; not a violent supposition ; such correspondences between the physi- cal and moral worlds do occur, and there is a Providence in them.—ioxvpa: the most probable reading if only because λιμὸς is feminine only in Doric and late Greek usage.—torepeto@ar: the result of wastefulness and prevalent dearth com- bined is dire want. What is to be done? Return home? Not yet; that the last shift.—Ver. 15. ἐκολλήθη, he attached himself: (pass. with mid. sense). The citizen of the far country did not want him, it is no time for employing super- fluous hands, but he suffered the wretch to have his way in good-natured pity.— βόσκειν χοίρους: the lowest occupation, a poor-paid pagan drudge; the position of the publicans glanced at.—Ver. 16. ἐπεθύμει, etc., he was fain to fill his belly with the horn-shaped pods of the carob- tree. The point is that he was so poorly fed by his new master (who felt the pinch of hard times, and on whom he had small claim) that to get a good meal of any- thing, even swine’s food, was a treat. γεµίσαι τ. κ., though realistic, is redeemed from vulgarity by the dire distress of the quondam voluptuary. Anything to fill the aching void within !—ovSels ἐδίδον, no one was giving him: this his ex- perience from day to day and week