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# came to himself
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This idiom means he realized what the truth was, that he had made a terrible mistake. Alternate translation: "clearly understood his situation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread
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This is part of an exclamation, and not a question. Alternate translation: "All my father's hired servants have more than enough bread to eat"
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# bread
This is a synecdoche for any kind and all kinds of food. Alternate translation: "food" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# perishing from hunger
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This is probably not an exaggeration. Jesus may have meant that the young man in his parable was actually starving then.
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# perishing
"dying" or "being destroyed"