Verse 1
b. Children and Parents, Ephesians 6:1-4 .
1. Children Direct address to children as to the other relations; as if even the child should hear the apostolic voice and obey in it the divine command.
In the Lord Qualifying obey, and implying that their obedience was, like every Christian character, embodied in Christ, who is the embodiment of man’s duty and God’s mercy.
This is right There is a natural and fundamental rightness in this obedience. The parents are authors of your being; they furnish you with livelihood and bringing up, they are your representatives to the world, responsible for your good behaviour and well being. It is right, therefore, that for the proper discharge of those responsibilities you should submit your inferior judgments and wills to theirs. But this natural law is sanctioned by the divine law. The apostle quotes, without any words of introduction, the fifth commandment of the decalogue, assuming that all recognise the words.
For the same reason he is free to vary the verbal form.
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