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luke 15:16 "And he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving [anything] to him.

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      16. would fain have filled--rather, "was fain to fill," ate greedily of the only food he could get.
      the husks--"the hulls of a leguminous plant which in the East is the food of cattle and swine, and often the nourishment of the poorest in times of distress" [STIER].
      no man gave . . . him--not this food, for that he had, but anything better (Jer 30:14). This was his lowest depth--perishing unpitied, alone in the world, and ready to disappear from it unmissed! But this is just the blessed turning-point; midnight before dawn of day (2Ch 12:8; 33:11-13; Jer 2:19).

JFB.


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