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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ephesians 6:1 - 6:1
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Eph 6:1-24. Mutual duties of parents and children: Masters and servants: Our life a warfare: The spiritual armor needed against spiritual foes. Conclusion.
obey - stronger than the expression as to wives, “submitting,” or “being subject” (Eph 5:21). Obedience is more unreasoning and implicit; submission is the willing subjection of an inferior in point of order to one who has a right to command.
in the Lord - Both parents and children being Christians “in the Lord,” expresses the element in which the obedience is to take place, and the motive to obedience. In Col 3:20, it is, “Children, obey your parents in all things.” This clause, “in the Lord,” would suggest the due limitation of the obedience required (Act 5:29; compare on the other hand, the abuse, Mar 7:11-13).
right - Even by natural law we should render obedience to them from whom we have derived life.