Letter 025 — The Whole Letter: Splanchnizomai (Luke 15)
The compassion of the father in Luke 15 is not polite. It is gut-level. Visceral. Bowels-deep. One Greek word changes how you read the whole chapter. Today we hear the whole letter.
In this letter
- The opening claim — Luke 15 is one chapter, three parables, one answer
- The party as the point of all three parables
- The Greek splanchnizomai (G4697) — gut-level compassion
- Where else this word shows up in the Gospels — Jesus and the crowds, the widow of Nain, the good Samaritan
- The father runs — and what running meant in the ancient world
- The older brother — the second lost son
- Why the…
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