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Eph_6:1. Ἐν κυρίῳ ] characterizes the obedience as Christian, the activity of which moves in Christ, with whom the Christian withal stands in communion of life. The reference to God (“praeter naturae legem … Dei quoque auctoritate sancitum docent,” Calvin; comp. Wolf) is already refuted by the very ἐν φόβῳ Χριστοῦ , Eph_4:21, placed at the head of all these precepts, as also by the standing formula itself (comp. Col_3:20).
δίκαιον ] right, i.e. κατὰ τὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ νόμον , Theodoret. Comp. Col_4:1; Php_1:7; Php_4:8; 2Th_1:6; Luk_12:57.
In favour of infant baptism, i.e. in favour of the view that the children of Christians were as early as that time baptized, nothing at all follows from the exhortation of the apostle to the children (in opposition to Hofmann, Schriftbew. II. 2, p. 192). The children of Christians were, through their fellowship of life with their Christian parents, even without baptism ἅγιοι (see on 1Co_7:14; Act_16:15), and had to render to their parents obedience ἐν κυρίῳ .