SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:13
Y no muchos días despus, juntndolo todo el hijo menor, parti lejos a una provincia apartada; y allí desperdici su hacienda viviendo perdidamente.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 15:13
Verse 13. Not many days after] He probably hastened his departure for fear of the fine which he must have paid, and the reproach to which he must have been subjected, had the matter come before the civil magistrate. See above. Riotous living.] zwn aswtwv, in a course of life that led him to spend all: from a not, and sww I save. And this we are informed, ver. 30, was among harlots; the readiest way in the world to exhaust the body, debase the mind, ruin the soul, and destroy the substance.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together , etc.] That his father had divided to him, all his goods and substance: as soon as a man has any internal substance, any considerable degree of natural knowledge, he immediately sets out from God, and employs it against him, in reasoning against him, against his being, his works, his providence, his purposes, his revelation, and will; as soon as a man has the exercise of his reason, as soon as he can think and speak, nay, as soon as he is born, he goes astray from God, speaking lies; and as soon as a wicked man has of this world, what his carnal heart desires, he is for living independent of God, and his providence; he is for gathering together all for himself, in order to spend it on his lusts, and at a distance from his father, the father of his mercies, of whom he is not mindful; and to whom he says, depart from me, having no regard to his worship and service, to his honour and glory, to his cause and interest: and took his journey into a far country ; which sets forth the state of alienation a sinner is in, while unconverted; he is afar off from God, from God the Father; from the presence of God, and communion with him: from the knowledge of God, and desire after it; from love to him, or fear of him; and from the life of God, or a living soberly, righteously, and godly; and from Christ, from the knowledge of him, from faith in him, love to him, fellowship with him, and subjection to his ordinances; and from the Spirit of God, and every thing that is spiritual; and from all that is good, from the law of God, and from the righteousness of it, and from righteous men: and there wasted his substance in riotous living ; his internal substance, his knowledge and understanding, even in natural things, and became brutish, and even like the beasts that perish; and his worldly substance in rioting and drunkenness, in chambering and wantonness, with harlots, as in ( Luke 15:30) whereby he was brought to a piece of bread, and to the want of it, Ver. 14. And when he had spent all , etc.] Sin strips a man of all that is good and valuable; of the image of God, of the knowledge of divine things, of natural holiness, of moral righteousness, and of strength to perform moral good; hence man is in a wretched and miserable condition, he is poor, and blind, and naked: and if man has spent all, and sin has stripped him of all, where is his free will? there is no good thing in man, but what comes from the grace of God; nor has he any thing to recommend him to God, or to offer to his creditor, to compound his debts with; nor can he prepare himself for conversion, or any good work: there arose a mighty famine in that land ; sin brings men into a starving and famishing condition; for in the far country, the land of sin, there is a famine of the word: though the Gospel is preached, it is only food to spiritual persons; unregenerate men have no desire to it, but neglect and despise it; and if they attend it, it has no place in them: they that are in this land, are aliens from the ordinances of God, the breasts of consolation, the goodness and fatness of his house; they are in a pit, wherein is no water; their taste is vitiated to every thing that is spiritually good; they live on bread of deceit, and labour after that which satisfies not; wherefore they look like skeletons, and are as the dry bones in Ezekiel's vision: and he began to be in want ; or was in want: when the above is the case, the sinner may be truly said to be in want; an unregenerate man is in want of every thing that is good; of wisdom and knowledge, of grace and holiness, of righteousness or clothing, of food, and of all the necessaries of life: and he may be said to begin to be in want, because man was not originally so, but was possessed of a natural fulness; and because sin is the beginning of want, as soon as one takes place, the other does: moreover, this man now began to see and feel himself to be in want, though as yet he was not rightly and truly sensible of his wants, at least of the way to redress them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-16 - The parable of the prodigal son shows the nature of repentance, and the Lord's readiness to welcome and bless all who return to him. It full sets forth the riches of gospel grace; and it has been, and will be while the world stands, of unspeakable use to poor sinners, to direc and to encourage them in repenting and returning to God. It is bad, an the beginning of worse, when men look upon God's gifts as debts due to them. The great folly of sinners, and that which ruins them, is, being content in their life-time to receive their good things. Our firs parents ruined themselves and all their race, by a foolish ambition to be independent, and this is at the bottom of sinners' persisting in their sin. We may all discern some features of our own characters in that of the prodigal son. A sinful state is of departure and distanc from God. A sinful state is a spending state: wilful sinners misemplo their thoughts and the powers of their souls, mispend their time an all their opportunities. A sinful state is a wanting state. Sinner want necessaries for their souls; they have neither food nor raimen for them, nor any provision for hereafter. A sinful state is a vile slavish state. The business of the devil's servants is to make provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof, and that is n better than feeding swine. A sinful state is a state constan discontent. The wealth of the world and the pleasures of the sense will not even satisfy our bodies; but what are they to precious souls A sinful state is a state which cannot look for relief from an creature. In vain do we cry to the world and to the flesh; they have that which will poison a soul, but have nothing to give which will fee and nourish it. A sinful state is a state of death. A sinner is dead i trespasses and sins, destitute of spiritual life. A sinful state is lost state. Souls that are separated from God, if his mercy preven not, will soon be lost for ever. The prodigal's wretched state, onl faintly shadows forth the awful ruin of man by sin. Yet how few ar sensible of their own state and character!
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ μετ 3326 PREP ου 3756 PRT-N πολλας 4183 A-APF ημερας 2250 N-APF συναγαγων 4863 5631 V-2AAP-NSM απαντα 537 A-APN ο 3588 T-NSM νεωτερος 3501 A-NSM-C υιος 5207 N-NSM απεδημησεν 589 5656 V-AAI-3S εις 1519 PREP χωραν 5561 N-ASF μακραν 3117 A-ASF και 2532 CONJ εκει 1563 ADV διεσκορπισεν 1287 5656 V-AAI-3S την 3588 T-ASF ουσιαν 3776 N-ASF αυτου 846 P-GSM ζων 2198 5723 V-PAP-NSM ασωτως 811 ADV
Vincent's NT Word Studies
13. All. Everything was taken out of the father's hands.Took his journey (apedhmhsen). Answering to our phrase went abroad.
Wasted (dieskorpisen). The word used of winnowing grain. See on Matt. xxv. 24.
With riotous living (zwn aswtwv). Lit., living unsavingly. Only here in New Testament. The kindred noun, ajswtia, is rendered by the Rev., in all the three passages where it occurs, riot (Eph. v. 18; Tit. i. 6; 1 Peter iv. 4). See note on the last passage.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
15:13 {Not many days after} (met' ou pollas hemeras). Literally, after not many days. Luke is fond of this idiom (#7:6; Ac 1:5). {Took his journey} (apedemesen). First aorist active indicative of apodemew (from apodemos, away from home). Common verb. In the N.T. here and #Mt 21:33; 25:14; Mr 12:1; Lu 20:9. He burned all his bridges behind him, gathering together all that he had. {Wasted} (dieskorpisen). First aorist active indicative of diaskorpizw, a somewhat rare verb, the very opposite of "gathered together" (sunagogwn). More exactly he scattered his property. It is the word used of winnowing grain (#Mt 25:24). {With riotous living} (zwn aswtws). Living dissolutely or profligately. The late adverb aswtws (only here in the N.T.) from the common adjective aswtos (a privative and swzw), one that cannot be saved, one who does not save, a spendthrift, an abandoned man, a profligate, a prodigal. He went the limit of sinful excesses. It makes sense taken actively or passively (_prodigus_ or _perditus_), active probably here.
