Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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Gill's Exposition
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger,.... See Gill on Eph 6:4.
lest they be discouraged; or disheartened and dispirited; their spirits be broke through grief and trouble, and they become…
Barnes' Notes
Fathers, provoke not ... - Notes, Eph 6:4. Lest they be discouraged - Lest, by your continually finding fault with them, they should lose all courage, and despair of ever pleasing you. There is much…
The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and…
Cambridge Bible
Fathers We may (as in Eph 6:4, where see note) equally well render Parents. Cp. Heb 11:23, in the Greek. Still, the father is the natural representativeof the dual parental authority.
provoke not … to…
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