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Fathers, don`t provoke your children, so that they won`t be discouraged.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Fathers, provoke not, etc. (See Barnes on Ephesians 6:4).
Lest they be discouraged. If you continually find fault with the…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Some fathers do; they expect more from children than they wi…
The specific mention of “fathers” suggests that the father as head of the household has a special responsibility for training the children. No slig…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger (See Gill on Ephesians 6:4).
lest they be di…
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The epistles most concerned with displaying the glory of Divine grace and magnifying the Lord Jesus are also the most particular in emphasizing the…
13th Century
Catholic
Having given a general direction to all, Paul now begins to give particular directions. First, he gives special directions that relate to the vario…
