Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
All Commentaries on Exodus 20:12 Go To Exodus 20
Jerome
AD 420
[The Lord] declares that [this commandment] is to be interpreted not of mere words, which while offering an empty show of regard may still leave a parent’s wants unrelieved, but by the actual provision of the necessaries of life. The Lord commanded that poor parents should be supported by their children and that these should pay them back when old for those benefits which they had themselves received in their childhood.
