But he said to him, Child, you are always with me, and all of my things are yours.
But when this son of yours came, the one devouring your living with harlots, you killed the fattened calf for him.
But to be merry and it was right to rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead, and lived again; and being lost, also he was found.
But the slave does not remain into the house to the age; the son remains to the age.
I say then, Did not God thrust away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham’s seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.
“Or who first gave to Him, and it will be repaid to him?” Job 41:11
who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants, and the Lawgiving, and the service, and the promises;