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You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
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Teaching Starts in the Heart
Matthew Henry's commentary highlights that effective spiritual instruction for children begins with the parent's own heart. He explains that before one can teach God's word, their own heart must be filled with 'good thoughts, good affections, and good principles.' The external act of teaching is an overflow of an internal reality.
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Deuteronomy
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Deuteronomy 11:18).
Presbyterian
Let all be directed by the three rules given here.