Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Luke 15:13

13. not many days--intoxicated with his new--found resources, and eager for the luxury of using them at Will.

a far country--beyond all danger of interference from home.

wasted, &c.--So long as it lasted, the inward monitor (Is 55:2) would be silenced (Is 9:10; 57:10; Am 4:6-10).

riotous living--(Lu 15:30), "with harlots." Ah! but this reaches farther than the sensualist; for "in the deep symbolical language of Scripture fornication is the standing image of idolatry; they are in fact ever spoken of as one and the same sin, considered now in its fleshly, now in its spiritual aspect" (Jr 3:1-15; Eze 16:1-17:24) [Trench].