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17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, aI have sinned against heaven and before you,  
19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
20 “And he arose and came to his father. But awhen he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.  
21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven aand in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’  
22 “But the father said to his servants,1 ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.  
23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
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Luke 15:19

No more worthy ... - "Such has been my conduct that I have been a disgrace to my father. I am not fit to be honored by being called the son of a man so kind and virtuous."

Make me as one ... - "Treat me as a servant. Let me come again into your family, but I do not ask to be treated as a son. I am willing to come in if you will give me only the support that you give to a servant." This evinced,

1.Deep humility - such as a sinner should have.

2.Love for his father' s house - such as all penitents should have toward God' s dwelling-place in heaven.

3.Confidence in his father that he would treat him kindly, even if he treated him as a servant. Such confidence all returning penitents feel in God. They are assured that God will treat them kindly that whatever he gives them will be more than they deserve, and they are, therefore, willing to be in his hands. Yet,

4.He had no adequate sense of his father' s kindness. He did not fully appreciate his character. He was far more kind than he had dared to hope he would be; just as all sinners undervalue the character of God, and find him always more kind than they had supposed. No sinner comes to God with a just and adequate view of his character, but "always" finds him more merciful than he had dared to hope.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Luke 15:19:

Philemon 1:16

 

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