Luke 2:50-51 And they understood not the saying which he spoke to them.… "Whatever else you teach, or omit to teach, your children," said the Rev. T. Scott, "fail not to teach them subjection, and that to the mother as well as the father. This is as essential to their own welfare, temporal and eternal, as to that of the family, the Church, and the State. Establishing authority — which is quite consistent with kindness and affection — so that from childhood they shall never deliberately think of having or doing what a parent disapproves; this is the greatest safeguard you can place around young persons. Subjection to authority is God's ordinance, essential to the belief and practice of religion. If it be true," he adds, "that there are more pious women than men," he ascribes it much to this circumstance, "that they are more used to restraint and subjection." Parallel Verses KJV: And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.WEB: They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them. |
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