Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ephesians 6:2
With promise] the first which is accompanied with a promise: cp. 'with the word' (Ephesians 5:26). We might punctuate, 'the first commandment, with promise that it may be well,' etc.
With promise] the first which is accompanied with a promise: cp. 'with the word' (Ephesians 5:26). We might punctuate, 'the first commandment, with promise that it may be well,' etc.
Verse Ephesians 6:2. _HONOUR THY FATHER_] Exodus 20:12, Exodus 20:12, c., where this subject, together with the _promises_ and _threatenings_ connected with it, is particularly considered...
HONOUR THY FATHER AND MOTHER - see Exodus 20:12; compare notes on Matthew 15:4. WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT WITH PROMISE - With a promise annexed to it. The promise was, that their days should be l...
4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP Chapter S 5:22-6:4 _ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_ 2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25) 3. The mystery: concer...
EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST. The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
Children must obey their parents as a matter of Christian dutyHonour thy father and thy mother, etc., is both a dictate of righteousness and an injunction of primary importance; and moreover it carrie...
Children, obey your parents as Christian children should. Honour your father and your mother for this is the first commandment to which a promise is attached that it may be well with you, and that you...
CHILDREN AND PARENTS (Ephesians 6:1-4)...
HONOUR, &C. From Exodus 20:12....
_Honour_, &c. Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16. The Gr. here is verbatim that of the LXX. On the duty, cp. Matthew 19:19; Mark 7:10;...
2 F. ΤΊΜΑ ΤῸΝ ΠΑΤΈΡΑ. In the case of the children it was natural to clinch the instruction by a quotation from the Commandments which they must have been taught early. ἭΤΙΣ ἘΣΤῚΝ ἘΝΤΟΛῊ ΠΡΏΤΗ ἘΝ ἘΠΑΓΓ...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
Ephesians 6:1-4. PARENTS AND CHILDREN...
ΤΊΜΑ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΤΙΜΆΩ (G5091) ценить, почитать, чтить, уважать (BAGD; TDNT). ΕΝΤΟΛΉ (G1785) заповедь, ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΊΣΙ (G1860) _dat. sing._ обещание. Об иудейском учении по поводу этой запове...
WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT WITH PROMISE;— The church of Rome would hence argue, that the second commandment, which forbids the worship of images, having a promise added to it, of God's shewing mer...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 6:1-9) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9 3. Children and fathers....
(6:2,3) The second command--"Honor". "Honor" means to place in a position of high esteem, to cause respect to be shown. God rewards t\is action on the part of children towards parents with personal pe...
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) Here the authority of revealed law is added. WHICH IS ... [ heetis (G3748 ): INASMUCH AS IT IS] PROMISE. The "promise...
__ The Joint Body-In the Lord 32 There are three secrets in Ephesians: the secret of Christ (Eph_1:9), the secret administration (Eph_3:9) and the secret of marriage, here referred to. The physical...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 6 6:1-4 ~ CHILDREN AND PARENTS V1 Children, you must obey your parents. This is because the *Lord has...
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT WITH PROMISE. — It is, indeed, in the Decalogue “the only commandment with promise” distinctly attached to it. But it is still the first; the Decalogue being itself the introduct...
[5. Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF LIFE. (_a_) _Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
VI. (4_ b_.) In Ephesians 6:1. St. Paul passes from the detailed exposition of the true relation of husbands and wives, to deal with the relation of parents and children, far more cursorily and simply...
CHAPTER 27 THE CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLD Ephesians 6:1 THE Christian family is the cradle and the fortress of the Christian faith. Here its virtues shine most brightly; and by this channel its influence s...
τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα : _honour thy father and mother_. Obedience is the _duty; honour_ is the _disposition_ of which the obedience is born. The authoritative terms of the OT Law (Exodus...
Other relative duties those of parents and children. With this the concise paragraph in Colossians 3:20-21 is specially to be compared....
CHILDREN AND PARENTS; SERVANTS AND MASTERS Ephesians 6:1 Where our religion is true, it will affect every relationship in life. The love of Christ must find its manifestation in nursery and in kitch...
The teaching now turned to the next relationship of importance in the Christian household-the relationship of parents and children. Children are to yield obedience, and thus be set free from all care...
Duties of Children Literally, Paul says children are to keep on obeying their parents. This is restricted by the expression "in the Lord" which means a child may refuse to obey his parents if they ask...
(4) Honour thy father and mother; (5) (which is the first commandment with (b) promise;) (4) A proof of the first argument. (5) The third argument taken of the profit that ensues from it: because the...
_With a promise. This commandment being delivered with a special promise of a long life, which promise is to be understood conditionally, especially in regard to Christians, i.e. unless it be a greate...
(1) В¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. (2) Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) (3) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest l...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
I. INTRODUCTION A. In the last 2 studies, we discovered what the Lord expects from a Christian wife and a Christian husband. 1. In this whole 6-part study on Christian Behavior, we have learned the...
2._Which is the first commandment with promise. _The promises annexed to the commandments are intended to excite our hopes, and to impart a greater cheerfulness to our obedience; and therefore Paul us...
But it is not only that there is a line of conduct to follow, a model to imitate, a Spirit with whom one may be filled, it is not only relationships between oneself and God, and those in which we stan...
HONOUR THY FATHER AND MOTHER,.... This explains who parents are, and points at some branches of obedience due unto them; for they are not only to be loved, and to be feared, and reverenced, their corr...
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) Ver. 2. _First commandment with promise_] To wit, with special promise of long life. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 15:4 _"_...
The apostle, having explained the duties of wives and husbands, proceeds to the duties of children and parents, and then to those of servants, or slaves rather, and masters, with which he finishes his...
WITH PROMISE; with a promise annexed, namely, that of long life and great blessings. Exodus 20:12....
THE DUTIES OF CHILDREN, OF PARENTS, OF SERVANTS. A word to children and parents:...
HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER; WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT WITH PROMISE,...
PARENTS AND CHILDREN (vs.1-4) Children are next addressed. The instruction is simple and uncomplicated. They are to obey their parents in the Lord, that is, as subject to the Lord's authority. False...
CHAPTER 6 ______________ must obey their parents. Parents must give direction that is in the __________. This is God's plan from the creation and it is __________. Children are to __________ their p...
“HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT WITH PROMISE” “Honor”: To revere, value, and prize. In the New Testament God always informs Christians which moral and ethical laws found in...
1-4 The great duty of children is, to obey their parents. That obedience includes inward reverence, as well as outward acts, and in every age prosperity has attended those distinguished for obedience...
i.e. A special promise annexed to the particular duty commanded. There being promises added to only two commandments, viz. the second and this fifth; that which is annexed to the second commandment is...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Now, although Marcion has erased (the next clause), "which is the first commandment with promise,"[849] Origen de Principiis Book II In other passages also, Paul,...
Ephesians 6:2 Honor G5091 (G5720) your G4675 father G3962 and G2532 mother G3384 which G3748 is G2076 ...
INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING CHILDREN AND BONDSERVANTS (6:1-9). ‘Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honour your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, that...
Ephesians 6:2. HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER. See marginal references for repetitions and citations of Exodus 20:12. ‘Honor' includes more than obedience; Luther: ‘serve, love and esteem.' ‘Thy' sho...
IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS. (1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters; chap. Ephe...
2. _Christian Duties of Children and Parents._ These exhortations naturally follow those of the last section and rest, as the previous ones do, upon the common relation to the Lord. For the children o...
WHICH (ητις). "Which very" = "for such is."THE FIRST COMMANDMENT WITH PROMISE (εντολη πρωτη εν επαγγελια). Εν here means "accompanied by" (Alford). But why "with a promise"? The second has a gener...
Ephesians 6:1 Children and Parents. I. St. Paul assumes that the life of children may be a life in Christ. Children are to obey their parents in the Lord, and parents are to nurture their children in...
Ephesians 6 I. The Apostle compares the struggles of a Christian against the enemies of his soul to the warfare of a soldier against the enemies of his country. What are the spiritual truths, the Chri...
Ephesians 6:1. _Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right._ Fitting by nature, and pleasing in the sight of God. Ephesians 6:2. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first comm...
CONTENTS: Domestic life of Spirit-filled believers. Warfare of the believer. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Satan, Tychicus. CONCLUSION: The Christian life is a warfare, a struggle not o...
Ephesians 6:1. _Children, obey your parents,_ because they are your parents, who gave you birth, and nourished you with food and fond affection in all your tender years. Their age and experience quali...
HONOR. "It is your _duty_ to obey; _honor_ is the attitude that motivates you to obey." The quotation is Deuteronomy 5:16. 3, SO THAT. "God added this promise to the commandment. To honor your parent...
_Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right._ PARENTS AND CHILDREN I. Duties of children to parents. 1. Children owe to their parents an inward affection and regard. Their obedience...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 6:2 HONOR. Children obeying their parents (v. Ephesians 6:1) is in part how they honor them. PROMISE
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 6:1. CHILDREN, OBEY.—Until the days of discretion arrive this is the grace of childhood. If through obedience the child errs, the responsibility of that is...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 6:1 CHILDREN, OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD: FOR THIS IS RIGHT. The first duty of children is obedience, and "in the Lord," _i.e. _in Christ, this duty is confirmed. The ἐν Κυρ...
Now parent-child relationships, Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right (Ephesians 6:1). That "in the Lord" I think is important. If your parents are not godly and if your parents...
Deuteronomy 27:16; Exodus 20:12; Ezekiel 22:7; Jeremiah 35:18; M
Honor thy father, etc. To what is essentially right the divine ordinance is added. Compare Aeschylus : "For the reverence of parents, this is written third in the laws of much - venerated justice" (...
THE CHRISTIAN HOME Ephesians 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It was the Apostle Paul who, in the Spirit, said, "Grace * * hath appeared teaching us that * * we should live soberly, righteously and godly." C...
Honour — That is, love, reverence, obey, assist, in all things. The mother is particularly mentioned, as being more liable to be slighted than the father. Which is the first commandment with a promise...