Note 73 — THE LOST SHEEP, THE LOST COIN, AND THE PRODIGAL SON. Luke xv.
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Bengel, in his usual pointed way, expresses the specific varieties which characterize the three successive views of men’s sin, as stupidity, want of self-consciousness, and the positive choice of evil by an intelligent but depraved being. “Ovis, drachma, filius perditus: peccator stupidus, sui plane nescius, sciens et voluntarius.”[73]