Sunday School Times Luke 2:50-51 And they understood not the saying which he spoke to them.… There is an Oriental proverb which says, "The first deities which the child has to acknowledge are its parents"; and another, that "Obedient children are as ambrosia to the gods." The parent is to the child God's representative in a sense. Jesus places filial obedience and obedience to God together when He says (ver. 49), "Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business?" If a king places a viceroy over a portion of his dominions, it is the duty of loyal subjects to obey the viceroy. If they make war against the viceroy, they are actually making war against the king who appointed him. So a child disobeying its parents is disobeying God. And obedience is made easy by love. What wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, love is to the child. Heaven is high, and the path of obedience slopes up to it. (Sunday School Times.) 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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