Luke 15:32
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The father's statement 'it was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found' is the climactic theological declaration of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, asserting the appropriateness — the divine necessity — of celebration at repentance and restoration. The verse leaves the elder brother's response unresolved, an open ending that implicitly challenges every reader who identifies with his resentment. The passive 'is alive again' (anezēsen) anticipates resurrection language, suggesting that the prodigal's return is a figure for the spiritual resurrection that Paul describes in Ephesians 2:1 ('dead in trespasses…made alive'). Patristic exegetes uniformly identified the father with God, the younger son with sinners, and the elder son with those who questioned Jesus' table-fellowship with tax collectors.
תרגומים נוספים
But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'
But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
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