From Nave’s Topical Bible
Fatted Calf
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- General scriptures concerningLuke 15:23
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- Luke 15:23
Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.
Commentary on Luke 15:232 voices
Let us be merry - Both here, and wherever else this word occurs, whether in the Old or New Testament, it implies nothing of levity, but a solid, serious, religious, heartfelt joy: indeed this was the ordinary meaning of the word two hundred years ago, when our translation was made.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755Evangelical
Then he shall get up, come to his father, and confess to him, "I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your hired servants."When he confesses like that, he will be considered worthy of more than that for which he prayed. His father neither takes him in like a hired servant nor treats him like a stranger. Oh no, he kisses him as a son. He accepts him as a dead man come back to life again.
Athanasius of Alexandria· FESTAL LETTER 7Patristic