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Luke 15:27
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25 “Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.
27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’
28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him.
29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.
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Luke 15:27

Is come (hkei). Present indicative active, but a stem with perfect sense, old verb hkw retaining this use after perfect tenses came into use (Robertson, Grammar, p. 893).

Hath killed (equsen). Aorist active indicative and literally means,

did kill. Difficult to handle in English for our tenses do not correspond with the Greek.

Hath received (apelaben). Second aorist active indicative with similar difficulty of translation. Note apo in compositions, like re- in "receive," hath gotten him back (ap-).

Safe and sound (ugiainonta). Present active participle of ugiainw from ugihv, to be in good health. In spite of all that he has gone through and in spite of the father's fears.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 15:27:

Luke 5:31
Luke 15:11
Galatians 4:4
3 John 1:2
Revelation 4:7

 

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