And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
All Commentaries on Ephesians 6:4 Go To Ephesians 6
John Chrysostom
AD 407
Then he explains the allimportant thing about parenting: how children are to be brought to obedience. He traces the motive of obedience back to its source and fountain. He has already shown how the husband’s behavior elicits the wife’s obedience when he spoke primarily to the husband, advising him to draw her to him by the bonds of love. Similarly here also he shows how the parents’ behavior elicits the children’s obedience, saying, “Rear them in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.” Do you see how, when the spiritual motives are present, the physical effects will follow along? Do you want your son to be obedient? Rear him from the outset in the teaching and discipline of the Lord. Never regard it as a small matter that he should be a diligent learner of Scriptures. .
