richmahn_en_tn/luk/15/17.md

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# came to himself
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/translate/figs-idiom]])
# How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough food
This is part of an exclamation, and not a question. Alternate translation: "All my father's hired servants have more than enough food to eat"
# dying from hunger
This is probably not an exaggeration. The young man may really have been starving.