Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Killing. Protestants, "crying "or by his complaint be not deterred. (Haydock)
Chaldean agrees with us. The law permitted parents to sell their children, and to have them stoned to death, if they declared them disobedient, (Deuteronomy xxi. 18.; Calmet) and riotous, ver. 20. Timely chastisement may prevent such extremities. (Haydock)
St. Paul dissuades unnecessary severity, Colossians iii. 21.