Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 15:13

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13. not many days —intoxicated with his new—found resources, and eager for the luxury of using them at Will. a far country —beyond all danger of interference from home. wasted, c.—So long as it lasted, the inward monitor ( :- ) would be silenced ( Isaiah 9:10 Isaiah 57:10 ; Amos 4:6-10 ). riotous living — ( Amos 4:6-30.4.10- : ), "with harlots." Ah! but this reaches farther than the sensualist; for "in the deep symbolical language of Scripture fornication is the standing image of idolatry; they are in fact ever spoken of as one and the same sin, considered now in its fleshly, now in its spiritual aspect" ( Jeremiah 3:1-15 ; Ezekiel 16:1-17 ) [TRENCH]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"

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