Verse 2
2. Honour Venerate as your natural and divinely sanctioned superiors and controllers.
Father and mother Regarding both parents with equal though distinctive honour; the father with more awe, the mother with more love.
The first commandment with promise How first in the decalogue with promise? Does not the second commandment promise that God is a Being showing mercy unto thousands of them that love him, and keep his commandments? The satisfactory reply is, that though embraced in this second commandment this promise belongs alike and expressly to all the commandments, and is not peculiar to one; whereas the promise of the fifth is expressly limited to that alone. But the apostle does not, of course, mean that its being the first in order of the decalogue is in itself important; but it is important symbolizing that it is first in promissory eminence, no other decalogue command having any promise at all. It is in this respect true first, and last, and sole, and therefore signal in its promissory character.
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