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 carries with it a promise. Fathers are to refrain from exasperating their children, and to bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
[ Ephesians 6:4. the first commandment with promise: the writer is thinking of other commandments (not in the Decalogue) to which promises are attached. A. J. G.]