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"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
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Honoring God's Representatives
Commentators explain that striking a parent was a capital offense because parents are viewed as God's representatives on earth. To offer violence to a parent was seen as a direct insult to God and a violation of the most fundamental principles of nature. The severity of the punishment, equal to that for murder, was meant to show God's extreme abhorrence for this sin.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The following offenses were to be punished with death:
19th Century
Anglican
And he that smiteth his father ... — With homicide are joined some other offences, regarded as heinous and made punishabl…
16th Century
Protestant
The commandment is now enforced by the threat of capital punishment for its violation. Yet, this does not mean it includes all who have in…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he that smites his father or his mother With his fist, or with a stick, or cane, or such thing, though they died…
God, who by His providence gives and maintains life, by His law protects it. A willful murderer shall be taken even from God's altar. But God provi…
