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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. He was a gloomy spirit, good, solid, regular, constant, but not very joyful. He took things rather severely, so he did not understand what this amusement could mean. “Some of the Salvation Army got in here,” he said, “some of those boisterous Methodist people got her, and I do...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto him,.... The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, leave out the copulative "and", and the latter reads, "they said unto him"; the servants, one or other of them: thy brother is come; for in the relation of a brother, the younger son stood to him; being of the same nature and species, of the same nation, and both sons by national...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and treated him. I hardly know which to admire most, the love of the father when he fell upon the neck of the prodigal, or the love of the father...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, It did not seem to him right that one, who had acted so badly, should be thus honoured: “He was angry,”¾
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come: and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. These servants spoke as some of us have told to others what the Lord has done when souls have been saved, the unregenerate quickened, and those that were far off from God, by wicked works, have come back to him. We...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come: and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound, And he was angry, and would not go in: No, I dare say he was glad his brother was back, but he did not like such a fuss made over him, glad to see a wandering one restored, but why, why, why should there be all this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he was angry,.... Particularly that the fatted calf was killed, Lu 15:27 the preaching of a crucified Christ, and of free and full salvation by him, is highly displeasing and provoking to self-righteous persons; they are angry at it, that it should be free, that election to salvation should be of grace, that justification should be freely by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And would not go in: He did not believe in revivals, so he would not attend them; he did not believe in many being converted, especially if they had been great sinners; he would have nothing to do with them. Luk_15:28. Therefore came his father out, and intreated him. Oh, the goodness of the father, not only in receiving the returning prodigal,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and entreated him. I never know which to admire the more, — the love of the father in going to meet the returning prodigal, or in going out to talk with this coldhearted elder brother. He was a son, but he had not the true spirit of his father, he had fallen into a very wrong...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And would not go in: therefore came his father out, and entreated him. See the tenderness of this father; the same arms which embraced the sinning one were also ready to clasp the self-righteous one. I always feel great pity and great admiration for this dear, dear father. What with a bad son and a good son he had two bad sons, for this good son,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore came his father out, and intreated him. He was worth fetching in. There was a good deal of solid worth in his character, and his father kindly came to ask him to come in and share the joy.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he answering, said to his father,.... Commending himself, and reflecting on his father: lo, these many years do I serve thee; for though he was called a son, yet differed little from a servant; he was of a servile disposition, and under a spirit of bondage; he served his father, not in the Gospel, but in the law, moral and ceremonial; in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: “I have had no banquets. I have kept at home, a patient worker, and have had no extraordinary joys.” I know some Christian workers who are very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed/or him the fatted calf. “I am a consistent...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: A Christian of this stamp seems to say to the Lord, “I have been thy child all these years, yet I am still full of doubts and fears. I have none...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he answering said, to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: I know the brother. He says, “I have been a consistent Christian: I have been diligent in the service of God: I have abounded in prayer, and yet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee You may read it “slave for thee.” Luk_15:29. neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: Here have I been constant in the house of prayer, regular at my Sunday School class, and yet I get...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But as soon as this thy son was come,.... He will not own him in the relation of a brother, though the father had owned him in that of a son; and the offence he took was, that the fatted calf should be killed, or that a crucified Christ should be preached; that he should be preached at all, and much less that he should be preached to sinners; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. I do not read that the prodigal had devoured his father’s living with harlots; that is the elder brother’s version of it. I dare say that it was true, but it is always a pity to give the roughest interpretation to things. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. Think of that, you who are the Lord’s people, but who have fallen into a grumbling state of heart. Are you not ever with your Lord, and is not...