Fourth Sunday of Lent (3)

NOTES

Me

makes condition better than first

gifts over gift giver

who said he disobeyed father?

not good life (ritually seperate and immoral), but father?

Commentators

Pitre

Chrysostom

notes theres an interpretation that elder song is angels and younger is Adam

Cyril

some say older israel and younger gentiles

Augustine

taking gifts of God in garden but leaving Him

Ambrose

He returns to himself, for one “who departs from Christ rejects himself from himself.”

implies the harlot accusation is made up

Gregory of Nyssa

The Father embracing his neck and kissing “signifies the yoke of reason imposed..by Evangelical tradition, which annulled the observance of the law.”