And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
But he returned not to his former happiness before that coming to himself hehad experienced the presence of overpowering bitterness, and resolved the words of repentance, which are added, I will arise.
Now this prodigal son, the Holy Spirit has engraved upon our hearts, that we may be instructed how we ought to deplore the sins of our soul.
His meditating confession so won his father to him, that he went out to meet him, and kissed his neck; for it follows, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. This signifies the yoke of reason imposed on the mouth of man by Evangelical tradition, which annulled the observance of the law.
