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"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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What "Honor" Really Means
Commentators explain that to "honor" parents is a comprehensive duty. It includes not only showing reverence and esteem but also cheerful obedience to their lawful commands, submission to their correction, and actively providing for their comfort and needs, especially in their old age. As John Calvin notes, it involves reverence, obedience, and the practical repayment of care.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the Ten Commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; and Deuter…
19th Century
Anglican
Honour thy father and thy mother. —It is not a matter of great importance how we divide the commandments, nor is it histo…
Baptist
These commandments take a far wider sweep than the mere words. Thou shalt not kill includes the doing of anything by which life may be sho…
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16th Century
Protestant
I am not ignorant that the Tables of the Law are usually divided in a different manner;1 for those who make only one of the first two Co…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Honour your father and your mother , &c] Which is the fifth commandment of the decalogue, but is the first commandme…
The laws of the Second Table, that is, the last six of the Ten Commandments, state our duty to ourselves and to one another, and explain the great …
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