This story has traditionally been called “The Parable of the Prodigal Son.”What does prodigal mean? Which of the two brothers is prodigal?
What will be an ideal response?
- This parable is often remembered as the story of an ungrateful, dissolute younger son who returns to his father after years of a profligate lifestyle. (Its traditional title, “The Parable of the Prodigal Son,” surely contributes to this overly narrow focus.) However, the parable is more richly complex; it is, as the opening line tells us, the story of two brothers: “A certain man had two sons.”
Few students will be able to define the word prodigal. You may want to refer them to the dictionary definition: “reckless and extravagant waste of one’s property or means.” The younger son “wasted his substance with riotous living,” and, from the elder son, we later learn that his brother has “devoured [their father’s inheritance] living with harlots.” There is no doubt that this younger son is all the synonyms of the word “prodigal”: wasteful, reckless, dissolute, profligate, extravagant, licentious, immoral, and shameless. However, the story’s twist is that the older son has wasted his father’s love in a different way, for he is bitter, angry, ungrateful, selfish, and disrespectful. (Timothy Keller, a popular writer and New York City pastor, suggests that it might be the father who was actually prodigal in his love for his sons.)
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Edit the following passage. Correct any errors in capitalization, spelling, and punctuation. Divide the passage into paragraphs. Make only essential changes.
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