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LUKE 15:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.”
The son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son — the prepared speech begins as rehearsed. Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you: the confession as planned. I am no longer worthy to be called your son: but the prepared conclusion (make me like one of your hired servants) is interrupted by the father before the son reaches it.

Church Fathers on Luke 15:21

The younger son had despised his father when first he departed, and had wasted his father’s money. But when in course of time he was broken down by hardship, having become a hired servant, and eating the same food with the swine, he returned, chastened, to his father’s house. Hence it is said, And when be came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, but I perish with hunger.

Gregory the Great · 6th century

He rightly returns to himself, because he departed from himself. For he who returns to God restores himself to himself, and he who departs from Christ rejects himself from himself.

Ambrose · 4th century

But he returned to himself, when from those things which without unprofitably entice and seduce, he brought back his mind to the inward recesses of his conscience.

Augustine · 4th century
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