NOTE: 54

...to love [God] truly and with the whole heart and mind becomes manifest at that time when [a man] fulfills the will of his parents and of his Creator; just as our Lord saith: *He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me* [John 14:21]. And since man is not an irrational beast, having neither order nor rule, driven solely by natural impulse, but is rather rational and prudent, it behooveth [him] to conduct his life with sound discernment and [good] choice; [and] that all his movements and actions possess order and rule, so that he may be distinguished from irrational animals and be recognized as rational. 1. A man's first and principal duty, after [his duty to] God, is the honor and reverence which children must render unto their parents: for they have begotten and nourished him, and have preserved and reared him with good discipline; they have sent him to school, and by the hands of a schoolmaster have caused him to be taught the requisite learning and the articles of the Faith; and they have apprenticed [him] to a trade, that [for] their bodily...