Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 15:32 - 15:32

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 15:32 - 15:32


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32. εὐφρανθῆναι δὲ καὶ χαρῆναι ἔδει. There was a moral fitness in our mirth. “They glorified God … saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life,” Act 11:18. It would be impossible to mark more emphatically God’s displeasure at the narrow, exclusive, denunciatory spirit which would claim for ourselves only, or our party, or our Church, a monopoly of heaven. The hard dogmatism and speculative theories of a self-asserting Theology “vanish like oppressive nightmares before this single parable in which Jesus reveals the heavenly secrets of human redemption, not according to a mystical or criminal theory of punishment, but anthropologically, psychologically, and theologically to every pure eye that looks into the perfect law of liberty.” Von Ammon, Leb. Jesu, III. 50.

ὁ ἀδελφός σου οὗτος. The οὗτος which the elder son had used is repeated, but in a very different sense. For he is thy brother, and I thy father, though thou wouldest refuse this name to him, and didst not address that title to me.

νεκρὸς ἦν καὶ ἔζησεν. Comp. Rom 11:15.