12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
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Verse 12. Honour. Love, respect, feed, if requisite; support the infirmities of parents. See Numbers 24:1. 1 Timothy 5:3, 17. They are ministers of God in the production of children; and those who offer an affront to his minister, irritate God. Philo.—Land of Chanaan. The promises are of a temporal nature; but they should bring to our reflection the eternal rewards which attend the virtuous. The duties of parents are not specified, as nature would shew their extent, and as the obligations of parents and children are reciprocal. Calmet.
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