From Nave’s Topical Bible
Fatted Calf
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
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- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningLuke 15:23
The passages, in Bible order (1)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 1 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Luke 15:23
Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.
Commentary on Luke 15:232 voices
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
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