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Luk 15:32. Ἔδει) Not only is the idea intimated hereby, Thou oughtest to have rejoiced; but this one, Rejoicing ought to have been commenced as it has been at our house. For it is a kind of apologetic defence against the complaint expressed in verse 30 [the killing of the fatted calf for such a profligate], with which comp. Luk 15:2 [in which the corresponding complaint of the Pharisees occurs, “This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.”]. [How wonderful is the condescending kindness of the Father (in thus gently expostulating with one who evinced so bad a spirit)!-V. g.] So ἔδει, in the sense it was befitting, not it would be befitting, Act 1:16 [Peter, speaking of the past, ἔδει πληρωθῆναι τὴν γραφὴν-περὶ Ἰούδα, It was befitting, that the Scripture should be fulfilled concerning Judas].-ὁ ἀδελφός σου οὗτος, this thy brother) In antithesis to this thy son, in Luk 15:30 [which the elder brother had said contemptuously].