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What Provoking Means
Scholars explain that "provoking" children is not just a single act of anger, but a habitual pattern. This includes constant fault-finding, nagging, setting impossibly high standards, or administering overly harsh discipline for small faults. The Greek implies a continuous nagging that wears a child down.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 3:21
18th Century
Theologian
Fathers, provoke not, etc. (See Barnes on Ephesians 6:4).
Lest they be discouraged. If you continually find fault with the…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 3:21
Provoke not (μη ερεθιζετε). Present imperative of old verb from ερεθω, to excite. Only twice in N.T., here in bad sense, in good s…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 3:21
19th Century
Bishop
Provoke not . . . to anger.—This, in the text followed by our version, is borrowed from Ephesians 6:4. The true reading i…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 3:21
19th Century
Preacher
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Some fathers do; they expect more from children than they wi…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 3:21
The specific mention of “fathers” suggests that the father as head of the household has a special responsibility for training the children. No slig…
John Gill
On Colossians 3:21
17th Century
Pastor
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger
(See Gill on Ephesians 6:4).
lest they be di…
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 3:18–25
17th Century
Minister
The epistles most concerned with displaying the glory of Divine grace and magnifying the Lord Jesus are also the most particular in emphasizing the…