for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
But it was meet to take merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive (again); and (was) lost, and is found.
to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.