The Fifth Commandment (2)

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother. . . . In the foregoing articles on the Fifth Commandment the following views were presented and contended for. The fifth command concerns not merely the parental but every power or authority ordained by God. To obey is to hear, to hearken to the word, instruction, admonition of the authority. Parents are being honored through their being obeyed. Thus to honor father and mother is to own them as parents and to acknowledge their parental authority through being...