*He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'*
A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Yisra'eli, a descendant of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.
*Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?*
who are Yisra'eli's; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;