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 What is the meaning of the Prodigal Son parable? |
Aaron Scott |
I think we all understand it to mean that even if we have gone astray, the Father will welcomes us to come back home.
But I have also been thinking of it as a meditation on the relationship between the Father, the Jews, and the Gentiles. That is, the Gentiles went astray, but the Father welcomes them back. The Jews (the older brother) are then upset that the Gentiles are welcomed back into the fold.
Anyone else ever thought of it like this? If so, I'd appreciate hearing more about it. |
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bonnie knox |
Aaron, the parable in Luke 15 is prefaced by the Pharisees and scribes murmuring about Jesus receiving the publicans and sinners.
It would be a little more difficult to map the parable to Gentiles and Jews rather than to the Pharisees and sinners because the Gentiles were never "in the house."
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| Re: What is the meaning of the Prodigal Son parable? |
Resident Skeptic |
| Aaron Scott wrote: | I think we all understand it to mean that even if we have gone astray, the Father will welcomes us to come back home.
But I have also been thinking of it as a meditation on the relationship between the Father, the Jews, and the Gentiles. That is, the Gentiles went astray, but the Father welcomes them back. The Jews (the older brother) are then upset that the Gentiles are welcomed back into the fold.
Anyone else ever thought of it like this? If so, I'd appreciate hearing more about it. |
I have heard this taught in the past.
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| bonnie knox wrote: | Aaron, the parable in Luke 15 is prefaced by the Pharisees and scribes murmuring about Jesus receiving the publicans and sinners.
It would be a little more difficult to map the parable to Gentiles and Jews rather than to the Pharisees and sinners because the Gentiles were never "in the house."
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I would agree with this. The parable that is more fitting for the Gentiles is the invitation to the feast (the highways and hedges). |
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| Re: What is the meaning of the Prodigal Son parable? |
bradfreeman |
| Aaron Scott wrote: | I think we all understand it to mean that even if we have gone astray, the Father will welcomes us to come back home.
But I have also been thinking of it as a meditation on the relationship between the Father, the Jews, and the Gentiles. That is, the Gentiles went astray, but the Father welcomes them back. The Jews (the older brother) are then upset that the Gentiles are welcomed back into the fold.
Anyone else ever thought of it like this? If so, I'd appreciate hearing more about it. |
I've heard it taught that way and it may have some application there. I think you're on the right track to consider many of the parables as having application to nations.
For example: The parables relating to slaves or servants, where your status in the house or out in darkness depends on your performance, pretty clearly apply to the Jews. We are no longer slaves, but sons.
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Aaron, the older brother - based on the discussion with the Pharisees and teachers of religious law preceding it - can likely represent pious Jewish folks.
| Quote: | | Luke 15:1 Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. 2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!(NLT) |
In the Prodigal son story, the younger and older brother are both outside the Father's house...not realizing what they are missing has been waiting on them the whole time.
Both need to be brought in.
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| Nature Boy Florida wrote: | Aaron, the older brother - based on the discussion with the Pharisees and teachers of religious law preceding it - can likely represent pious Jewish folks.
| Quote: | | Luke 15:1 Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. 2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!(NLT) |
In the Prodigal son story, the younger and older brother are both outside the Father's house...not realizing what they are missing has been waiting on them the whole time.
Both need to be brought in. |
What the Father offered both sons, to bring them in, was a revelation of his goodness and generosity. If either believed it, they entered in.
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| RE: Kezazah Ceremony |
Mark Ledbetter |
While a Google search is replete with Christian use of Kezazah in their commentary regarding the Prodigal Son, there are no references to the ceremony in the Mishnah or Jerusalem Talmud
There are 5 reverences in the Babylonian Talmud, none of which would apply to the Father's response to the Prodigal Son. In the Talmud the reference is in regard to a man who marries a woman in appropriate to his genealogical standing.
Part of the ceremony includes bringing a jug full of produce and smashing it in the middle of the street.
A possible stretch is the selling of a family heirloom to someone outside the family, but this hardly matches the actions of the Prodigal.
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