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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 15:13 - 15:13
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not many days - intoxicated with his new - found resources, and eager for the luxury of using them at Will.
a far country - beyond all danger of interference from home.
wasted, etc. - So long as it lasted, the inward monitor (Isa 55:2) would be silenced (Isa 9:10; Isa 57:10; Amo 4:6-10).
riotous living - (Luk 15:30), “with harlots.” Ah! but this reaches farther than the sensualist; for “in the deep symbolical language of Scripture fornication is the standing image of idolatry; they are in fact ever spoken of as one and the same sin, considered now in its fleshly, now in its spiritual aspect” (Jer 3:1-15; Ezekiel 16:1-17:24) [Trench].