In the Lord . The children being with their parents in the Lord , are to be influenced by religious duty as well as by natural affection. Belonging essentially to the very nature of the relation. Honor thy father , etc. To what is essentially right the divine ordinance is added.
Honor expresses the frame of mind from which obedience proceeds.
First in point of promise , as it also is in order the first with promise . The adjective occurs only here. Pav deia from paiv a child . In classical usage, that which is applied to train and educate a Child . In scriptural usage another meaning has come into it and its kindred verb paideuein, which recognizes the necessity of correction or chastisement to thorough discipline .