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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · honoring parents · the fear of death · religious persecution and toleration · piety and justice · marriage and betrothal · interpretation of scripture · divine favor · debt owed to parents · custom and unwritten law
Usually: argument (2) · injustice endured (1) · curiosity (1) · reverence (1)
Shifting to the fourth commandment, Aquinas argues it is fitting to command honor to father and mother first because it is the debt due to one’s parents as the particular principle of one’s being, including support within honor.
the well-wishers of our country, as stated above (Q. 101, AA. 1, 2). Therefore it was unfitting for this precept to mention only the honoring of one's father and mother. Obj. 3: Further, we owe our parents not merely honor but also support. Therefore the mere honoring of one's parents is unfittingly prescribed. Obj. 4: Further, sometimes those who honor their parents die young, and on the contrary those who honor t…
Calvin interprets the promise attached to honoring parents as a pledge of God’s favor to Israelites and then to believers, arguing that even early death still fulfills God’s promise.
be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.”(885) And whenever Paul mentions this commandment, he explains it as a requisition of obedience.(886) XXXVII. In order to recommend it, a promise is annexed, which is a further intimation how acceptable to God that submission is which is here enjoined. Paul employs that stimulus to arouse our inattention, when he says, “This is the f…