“Hence too was the prodigal denominated one who wasted his substance, that is, his right understanding, the teaching of chastity, the knowledge of the truth, the recollections of his father, the sense of creation.”
Titus of Bostra, 4th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
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11And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
— Luke 15:13 —
14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.