Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Do I serve thee (douleuw soi). Progressive present tense of this old verb from doulov (slave) which the elder son uses to picture his virtual slavery in staying at home and perhaps with longings to follow the younger son (Robertson, Grammar, p. 879).
Transgressed (parhlqon). Second aorist active indicative of parerxomai, to pass by. Not even once (aorist) in contrast with so many years of service (linear present).
A kid (erifon). Some MSS. have erifion, diminutive, a little kid. So margin of Westcott and Hort. B has it also in Matthew 25:32, the only other N.T. passage where the word occurs.
That I might make merry (ina eufranqw). Final clause, first aorist passive subjunctive of the same verb used in verses Luke 15:23, Luke 15:25.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 15:29:
Luke 15:11
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