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i here, three µατα εἰς τοὺς πόδας: 23. καὶ ἐνέγκαντες 1 τὸν µόσχον τὸν ' σιτευτὸν
times.
εὐφραίνεσθαι.
in Ν.Τ. k here οπ]γ 26. in NE.) aS as εἴη ταῦτα.
θύσατε, καὶ Φαγόντες εὐφρανθῶμεν ' 24. ὅτι οὗτος 6 vids µου νεκρὸς ἦν, καὶ ἀνέίησε: καὶ ἀπολωλὼς ἦν, καὶ εὑρέθη.
Καὶ ἤρξαντο
25. "Hv δὲ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ὁ πρεσβύτερος ἐν ἀγρῷ: . χα > / Ελ μες a j , .k An. jhere only καὶ ὧς ἐρχόμενος ἤγγισε τῇ οἰκίᾳ, ἤκουσε ) συμφωνίας καὶ " χορῶν καὶ προσκαλεσάµενος ἕνα τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ, ἐπυνθάνετο τί" 27. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ὅτι ὁ ἀδελφός σου ἥκει: καὶ
” ες Ul a , > ή ο ς , ο ἔθυσεν ὁ πατήρ σου τὸν µόσχον τὸν σιτευτὀν, OTL ὑγιαίνοντα αὐτὸν
ἀπέλαβεν.
28. Ώργίσθη δέ, καὶ οὐκ ἤθελεν εἰσελθεῖν.
ὁ οὖν 5
1 φερετε in $$BLRX, more suitable to emotional speech.
2 For και απ. nv BL have ην απ. without και, which D also omits.
8 Omit αυτου all uncials.
47. αν in B al. (W.H.).
5 For ο ουν NABDLRX τ, 33 al. have ο δε.
cerely—as if to say: I don’t deserve this, I came expecting at most a hireling’s treatment in food and otherwise, I should be ashamed to be anything higher.—Ver. 22. δούλους: their presence conceivable, the father’s running and the meeting noticed and reported by some one, so soon drawing a crowd to the spot, or to meet the two on the way to the house. To them the father gives directions which are his response to the son’s proposed selfdegradation. He shall not be their fellow, they shall serve him by acts sym- bolic of reinstatement in sonship.—ta xv, quick! a most probable reading (8981), and a most natural exclamation ; obliter- ate the traces of a wretched past as soon as possible; off with these rags! fetch robes worthy of my son, dressed in his best as on a gala ἆαγ.---ἐξενέγκατε, bring from the house—o7roAjv τ. πρώτην, the jirst robe, not in time, formerly worn (Theophy.), but in quality; cf. the second chariot, Gen. xli. 43 (currus secundus, Ῥεησε]).-- “δακτύλιον (here only in N.T.): no epithet attached, golden, e.g. (Wolff, golden ring for sons, ivon ring for slaves) ; that it would be a ring of distinction goes without saying.—trodipara, shoes ; needed—he is barefoot and footsore ; and worn by sons, not by slaves. Robe, ring, shoes: ali symbols of filial state—Ver. 23. τὸν µόσχον τὸν σιτευτόν: always one fattening for high-tides; could not be used on a better occasion.—Ver. 24: reason for making this a festive day.— οὗτος, etc.: the father formally calls him his son, partly by way of recognition, and partly to introduce him to the attendants in case they might not know him.—vex- pds, dead, ethically 2 or as good as dead? the latter more probable in a speech to
εἶανες.--ἁπολωλὼς, lost; his where- abouts unknown, one reason among others why there was no search, as in the case of the sheep and the coin.
Vv. 25-32. The elder son, who plays the ignoble part of wet blanket on this glad day, and represents the Pharisees in their chilling attitude towards the mission in behalf of the publicans and sinners.— Ver.25. ἐν ἀγρῷ, on the farm; of course there every day, doing his duty, a most correct, exemplary man, only in his wis- dom and virtue so cold and merciless towards men of another sort. Being at his work he is ignorant of what has happened: the arrival and what followed. ---ἐρχόμενος, coming home after the day’s work is over, when the merriment is in full swing, with song and dance Ailing the air.—Ver. 26. τί ἂν εἴη ταῦτα, not contemptuous, ‘‘ what all this was about” (Farrar, C. G. T.), but with the puzzled air of a man in the dark and surprised = what does this mean?—Ver. 27. In simple language the servant briefly ex- plains the situation, showing in his words neither sympathy nor, still less, the re- verse, as Hofmann thinks.—tyveivovra, in good health; home again and well, that is the whole case as he knows it; no thought in his mind of a tragic career culminating in repentance, or if he has any suspicion he keeps it to himself; thoroughly true to nature this —Ver 28. ὠργίσθη, he was angry, a very slight description of his state of mind into which various bad feelings would enter: disgust, chagrin that all this merri- ment had been going on for hours and they had not thought it worth while to let him know—an impolitic oversight; a sense of wrong and general unfair treate