NOTE: 55

...[they] may earn their need and provide [for them], and that they might suffer no want; and they have endured much sorrow and affliction to bring him up unto that age. Wherefore the son, calling to mind that he received his life from his parents, and hath beheld so much care and beneficence, is obligated to honor and venerate his parents, that he himself also may inherit God’s blessing and find good; even as God commanded, saying: *Honor thy father and thy mother: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long upon the earth.* || Exod. 20:12. But the rendering of honor doth not consist merely in outward gesture and word, but it must be from the heart and by deed. 2. Children must needs be obedient unto the counsel of their parents, which is ever for the profit of the offspring; as the holy apostle commandeth: *Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.* || Ephes. 6:1. 3. They must not pain their parents' heart with harsh and bitter words, nor...