My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Ver. 8. Hear the instruction of thy father, &c.] It is not fit to disobey God, thy father, nor thy teacher, saith Aristotle a Our parents, said Hierocles, are Yεοι εφεστιοι, our household gods: and their words should be received as oracles. This is a principal fruit of the fear of God, which it here fitly followeth: like as in the decalogue, the commandment for honouring of parents is set next of all to those of the first table, nay, is indeed, as Philo saith of it, ειτολη μικτη, a mixed commandment.
a μη καλον χρινειν εναντια τοις θεοις, πατρι, και διδασκαλω. - Arist. Rhet.