Robertson Word Pictures - Ephesians 6:4 - 6:4

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Robertson Word Pictures - Ephesians 6:4 - 6:4


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Provoke not to anger (mē parorgizete). Rare compound, both N.T. examples (here and Rom 10:19) are quotations from the lxx. The active, as here, has a causative sense. Parallel in sense with mē erethizete in Col 3:21. Paul here touches the common sin of fathers.

In the chastening and admonition of the Lord (en paideiāi kai nouthesiāi tou kuriou). En is the sphere in which it all takes place. There are only three examples in the N.T. of paideia, old Greek for training a pais (boy or girl) and so for the general education and culture of the child. Both papyri and inscriptions give examples of this original and wider sense (Moulton and Milligan, Vocabulary). It is possible, as Thayer gives it, that this is the meaning here in Eph 6:4. In 2Ti 3:16 adults are included also in the use. In Heb 12:5, Heb 12:7, Heb 12:11 the narrower sense of “chastening” appears which some argue for here. At any rate nouthesia (from nous, tithēmi), common from Aristophanes on, does have the idea of correction. In N.T. only here and 1Co 10:11; Tit 3:10.