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20. καὶ ἀναστὰς ἦλθεν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ. A mere flash of remorse is not enough; a journey must be taken: the back must be at once and finally turned on the far land; and all the shame of abandoned duties and forsaken friends be faced. “The course to the unific rectitude of a manly life” always appears to the sinner to be, and sometimes really is, “in the face of a scorching past and a dark future.”
ἔτι δὲ αὐτοῦ μακρὰν ἀπέχοντος. “Now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ,” Eph 2:13.
ἐσπλαγχνίσθη, καὶ δραμὼν ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ. The δραμών, especially in the case of an old man and an Oriental, marks the intensity of his love. On this full, frank, absolute forgiveness see Psa 103:8-10; Psa 103:12. On the tender Fatherly love of God see Isa 49:15; Mat 7:11, &c.
καὶ κατεφίλησεν αὐτόν. For the verb see Luk 7:38-45. ‘Kissed him warmly or closely,’ Gen 33:4; Mat 26:48.