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Honor thy father, etc.
To what is essentially right the divine ordinance is added. Compare Aeschylus: “For the reverence of parents, this is written third in the laws of much-venerated justice” (“Suppliants,” 687-689). So Euripides: “There are three virtues which thou shouldst cultivate, my child, to honor the gods, and thy parents who gave thee being and the common laws of Hellas” (Fragment). Honor expresses the frame of mind from which obedience proceeds.
First - with promise (πρώτη εν ἐπαγγελίᾳ)
First in point of promise, as it also is in order the first with promise.