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Luke 15:16
would fain have filled—rather, "was fain to fill," ate greedily of the only food he could get.
the husks—"the hulls of a leguminous plant which in the East is the food of cattle and swine, and often the nourishment of the poorest in times of distress" [STIER].
no man gave . . . him—not this food, for that he had, but anything better (Jeremiah 30:14). This was his lowest depth—perishing unpitied, alone in the world, and ready to disappear from it unmissed! But this is just the blessed turning-point; midnight before dawn of day (II Chronicles 12:8; II Chronicles 33:11-13; Jeremiah 2:19).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 15:16:
Song of Solomon 1:6
Song of Solomon 2:3
Jeremiah 2:27
Hosea 2:6-7
Luke 16:21
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