obedience, includes obedience to all the commandments in the early period of life. This apostolic observation is a proof that the observance of the law in the New Testament is not abolished.
3. Eu ffot, well with thee) Let young persons attend to this statement. — ?ca/ £<% and thou mayest [shalt] be) The LXX., in both passages, viz. that in Exodus, and that in Deuteronomy, where the Decalogue is recounted, have it, that thou mayest become long-lived, xai 'iva {j,a'/.po%p6iuof y'svr,, but Deut. xxii. 7, that it may be well ivith thee, and thou mayest have many days — 'Iva sy ffoi y'tvyrai xat in\9Qft§p*t efffo from the cod. Al., where the ed. Rom. has ytv/i : sty, in the future of the subjunctive, is rare. He, who lives well for a long time, long experiences the favour of God, even in his children rendering him honour, and he has a long season of sowing the seed of an eternal harvest. — ftaxpoxpo- vios, long-lived) The more tender age of childhood, according to its capacity of apprehension, is allured by the promise of long life ; the exception of the cross is more expressly added to those that are grown up, and are of mature age. But length of days is promised, not only to single persons who honour their parents, but to their whole stock. — lit] TTJS yqg, upon the earth [the land^) Moses, writing to Israel, says, in the good land, l<xl r^g yjfc ayaflfo, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. At present godly men live equally well in every land, as Israel did in that which God gave them.
4. K«/ o/ Kar'epeS) and ye that are fathers) And is also pre fixed at ver. 9, and ye masters. It is not put before husbands, ch. v. 25. Parents and masters more readily abuse their power than husbands. He spoke of parents, ver. 1 ; he now addresses fathers in particular, for they are more readily carried away by passion. The same difference in the words, and the same admo nition, occur, Col. iii. 20, 21. — ^ -Trapop-ylfyre, do not provoke) lest love be extinguished. — sxrp'epere, but bring them up in the nurture) kindly. — tv vaidsia xai vovfatiq, in the nurture [instruc tion] and admonition) The one of these counteracts (obviates) ignorance ; the other, forgetfulness and levity. Both include the word, and all other training. So among the lawyers, vovfervfta, and admonition, is mentioned, even such as is given by stripes. Job v. 17, "ID1D, admonition; 1 Sam. iii. 13, Eli ovx svovQsrei, did not admonish his sons.