 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...his tattered robe, he exclaimed, " God of Abraham ! to what a wretched plight have 1 brought myself! How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father." This was wisdom. He arose, and,... | |
 | Charles Eyre - 1832 - 482 pages
...the outraged affection of our common father, and in the true spirit of Christian humility exclaim, " how many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ; I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 702 pages
...revived I died, Rom. vii. 9. And of the possihility of our being helped by the grace of God ? Yes : own * spare ! Luke xv. 17. Will these convictions put us in pain ? Yes : When they heard this, they were... | |
 | Henry Scawen Plumptre - 1833 - 224 pages
...the inferior members of his parents' domestic establishment, and himself as one of the children. " How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger?" The folly of his former conduct, in having so rashly abandoned his... | |
 | Tyler Thacher - 1834 - 230 pages
...Taylor lays a .great deal of stress upon the following passage : "And whoa he came to himself he said, how many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my Father." But this passage is not in Dr.... | |
 | 1835 - 434 pages
...Plenty had ruined him. The famine, and the husks which the swine did eat, made him think of home — " How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. I will arise, and go to my father." And that father, while he was... | |
 | Hannah More - 1835 - 442 pages
...would have been intolerable, my tears flowed fast, while I cried out in the bitterness of my soul, ' How many hired servants of my father have bread enough, and to spare, and 1 perish with hunger ! ' This text appeared a kind of answer to my prayer, and gave me courage... | |
 | John Jebb (bp. of Limerick.) - 1837 - 454 pages
...utterance to feelings, which words never could convey, — that " still small voice" is audible to God : " How many hired servants of my Father, have bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise, and go unto my Father, and will say unto him, Father,... | |
 | Louisa Parry - 1837 - 658 pages
...opened, and he began to think and to speak as a rational being. " And when he came to himself, he said, how many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father and say unto him, Father, I have... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 586 pages
...the husks that the swine did eat, and no man gave unto him ; and when he came unto himself, he said, how many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ? I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, father, I have... | |
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How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 
