SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:18
Me levantar, e ir a mi padre, y le dir: Padre, he pecado contra el cielo y delante de ti;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 15:18
Verse 18. Against heaven] eiv ton ouranon; that is, against God. The Jews often make use of this periphrasis in order to avoid mentioning the name of God, which they have ever treated with the utmost reverence. But some contend that it should be translated, even unto heaven; a Hebraism for, I have sinned exceedingly-beyond all description.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. I will arise , etc.] This is the resolution which at last, through divine grace, he came into: he determines to quit the country, and his companions; he had left his harlots, and his old course of living before, but was in the same country still; for this a man may do, and yet remain unregenerate: but he is now for leaving the country itself, and his new acquaintance; he is now determined to drop his legal preacher, to be gone out of his fields, and from under his ministry, and to leave his swine and husks; and go to my father : not to his old companions in debauchery and sin; nor to his elder brother, the Pharisees; he had made trial of both these to his cost already; nor to his father's servants, but to his father himself; to which he was moved and encouraged, from his being ready to perish, from the fulness of bread in his father's house and from the relation he stood in to him; notwithstanding, all that had passed, he was his father, and a kind and merciful one: this shows, that he knew him as his father, having now the Spirit of adoption sent down into him; and the way unto him, which lies through Christ the mediator: and will say unto him, father ; or, my father, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: I have sinned against heaven ; by preferring earthly things to heavenly ones; and have sinned openly in the face of the heavens, who were witnesses against him; and against God, who dwells in heaven. It was usual with the Jews to call God, ym , heaven; (see Gill on Matthew 21:25). They have this very phrase; there is a man, (say they), who sins against earth, and he does not ymb ajh , sin against heaven; against heaven, and he does not sin against earth: but he that speaks with an ill tongue sins against heaven and earth, as it is said, ( Psalm 73:9) they set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth. And so the sense is, that he had sinned against God himself, and not merely against men, and human laws. All sin is a transgression of the law of God; and the thought of sin being committed against a God of infinite holiness, justice, goodness, grace, and mercy, is cutting to a sensible sinner: and this being the case, this man determined to go to God his Father, and him only, for the pardon of his sin, against whom it was committed. It is added, and before thee ; for he was now convinced of his omniscience. Sin may be committed against a man, and not before him, or he not know it; but whatever is committed against God, is before him, it is in his sight, he knows it: he is God omniscient, though sinners take no notice of this perfection of his, but go on in sin, as if it was not seen, known, and observed by God. But when God works powerfully and effectually upon the heart of a sinner, he convinces him of his omniscience, as this man was convinced: hence he determined to go to God, and acknowledge his sin before him; and that it was committed before him, and was in his sight; and that he could not be justified in his sight by any righteousness of his own; and therefore humbly desires pardon at his hands. This man's sense of sin and sorrow for it, and confession of it, appear very right and genuine, which he determined to express; they appear to be the convictions of the Spirit of God: it was not a sense of sin, and sorrow for it, as done before men, but God; and the concern was not so much for the mischief that comes by sin, as for the evil that was in it; and this did not drive him to despair, as in the cases of Cain and Judas, but brought him home to his father; and his confession appears to be hearty, sincere, and without excuse.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-24 - Having viewed the prodigal in his abject state of misery, we are nex to consider his recovery from it. This begins by his coming to himself That is a turning point in the sinner's conversion. The Lord opens his eyes, and convinces him of sin; then he views himself and every object in a different light from what he did before. Thus the convinced sinne perceives that the meanest servant of God is happier than he is. To look unto God as a Father, and our Father, will be of great use in ou repentance and return to him. The prodigal arose, nor stopped till he reached his home. Thus the repenting sinner resolutely quits the bondage of Satan and his lusts, and returns to God by prayer notwithstanding fears and discouragements. The Lord meets him with unexpected tokens of his forgiving love. Again; the reception of the humbled sinner is like that of the prodigal. He is clothed in the rob of the Redeemer's righteousness, made partaker of the Spirit of adoption, prepared by peace of conscience and gospel grace to walk in the ways of holiness, and feasted with Divine consolations. Principle of grace and holiness are wrought in him, to do, as well as to will.
Greek Textus Receptus
αναστας 450 5631 V-2AAP-NSM πορευσομαι 4198 5695 V-FDI-1S προς 4314 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM πατερα 3962 N-ASM μου 3450 P-1GS και 2532 CONJ ερω 2046 5692 V-FAI-1S αυτω 846 P-DSM πατερ 3962 N-VSM ημαρτον 264 5627 V-2AAI-1S εις 1519 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM ουρανον 3772 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ ενωπιον 1799 ADV σου 4675 P-2GS
Robertson's NT Word Studies
15:18 {I will arise and go} (anastas proreusomai). this determination is the act of the will after he comes to himself and sees his real condition. {I did Sin} (hemarton). That is the hard word to say and he will say it first. The word means to miss the mark. I shot my bolt and I missed my aim (compare the high-handed demand in verse #12).
