And am no more worthy to be called thy son
As all the Jews were; not only by creation, and providential
care, as all men are; but by national adoption: and however
worthy this man might think himself to be called a Son of God
before, and value himself upon it; he now sees, and was ready to
own his unworthiness to be called so in any sense; and much more
to be called and accounted a Son of God by special adoption;
make me as one of thy hired servants;
this is said not from a servile spirit, but to express the mean
thoughts he had of himself, and the great desire he had to be fed
from his father's table, in the meanest way; and what an
happiness and honour it would be to him, could he be the meanest
in his family, a doorkeeper in his house; which was more eligible
to him, than to dwell in the tents of sin, or continue in this
hungry and starving condition.