And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Et vous, pères, n'irritez pas vos enfants, mais élevez-les en les corrigeant et en les instruisant selon le Seigneur.
KJV
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Salvian of Marseille
Against Greed in four books Book One
not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4): so that, as the prophet said, they may place their hope in God, not forget the works of their God, and seek His commandments (Psalm 77:7). Behold the kind of riche…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
seem unlawful for parents to strike their children, or masters their slaves. For the Apostle says ( Eph. 6:4 ): "You, fathers, provoke not your children to anger"; and further on ( Eph. 9:6 ): "And you, masters, do the same thing to your slaves [Vulg.: 'to them'] forbearing threa…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 102 (Migne)
tolus admonet parentes, dicens: Patres, [Col. 0936D] nolite ad iracundiam procurare filios vestros (Ephes. VI, 4) . Ut servi diligantur, idem Apostolus admonet, dicens: Domini, quod justum est et aequum praestate servis, scientes quoniam et vos Deum habetis in coelis (Coloss.…
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