Interesting, when did the idea to punish children appear? It is probably the fruit of the Age of Enlightenment, when was originated the secular humanism, making its slogan the ancient...
Interesting, when did the idea to punish children appear? It is probably the fruit of the Age of Enlightenment, when was originated the secular humanism, making its slogan the ancient sentence: "man is the measure of all things ". When man becomes the standard, then it happens to suppose that he is initially ideal and only a bad education can spoil him. The biblical opinion is completely the opposite. Human nature is deformed by the fall, which is why every man is a sinner «from the womb of his mother”.
And although education cannot change the human nature, it can help all the same the child to learn to distinguish bad from good. It is necessary to encourage him for what is good, and to chasten for what is bad. Parents, who don’t help their children to find moral guides, indeed show their indifference to the way the life of their children will be made up, and it is anything, but only not the love.
But there is another thing, completely unexpected, this verse has even a prophetic sense: the perfect Father, loving in perfection His Son, Who committed no sin, does not free Him nevertheless from chastening for the sins of other people. "For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth." (Prov. 3:12).
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13:2 Shall eat - Shall receive comfort, and benefit by his wise and profitable discourses.
13:6 Keepeth him - From that over - throw which befal sinners.
13:7 Maketh rich - Some men who have little or nothing, pretend to have great riches. Maketh rich - Some rich men profess to be poor.
13:8 Riches - Riches enable a man to redeem his life when it is in greatest danger, and poverty preserves a man from many injuries. Because they are cautious, that they may not provoke others; and because they are esteemed objects of pity.
13:9 The light - The prosperity. Rejoiceth - Shines with a pleasant and constant brightness. Rejoicing is here ascribed to the light, as it is to the sun, Psa 19:5, metaphorically.Put out - Their felicity shall have a hidden end.
13:10 Pride - It is chiefly, pride which blows up the coals of contention. Well - advised - Who are not governed by their passions, but by prudent considerations. Wisdom - Which teaches them to avoid contention.
13:11 Vanity - By wicked practices.
13:12 Hope deferred - Delays in obtaining what a man passionately desires. The desire - The good desired. A tree of life - It is satisfactory, and reviving.
13:13 The word - The word of God.
13:14 The law - The instruction, or counsel; as the word law, is frequently understood in scripture.
13:15 Giveth - Makes a man acceptable to God. Rough - Offensive and hateful to God and men, as rough ways are to a traveller.
13:16 Knowledge - Considerately and discreetly. Layeth open - By his foolish actions.
13:17 A messenger - Who is unfaithful in the execution of that which is committed to his charge. Is health - Procures benefit, as to his master, so to himself.
13:19 Sweet - Whatsoever men earnestly desire, the enjoyment of it is sweet to them; therefore sinners rejoice in the satisfaction of their sinful lusts, and abhor all restraint of them.
13:21 Evil - Punishment proportionable to their sin.
13:23 The poor - Poor persons by their diligent labours, and God's blessing often grow rich. Destroyed - Or, consumed, brought to poverty, for want of discretion.
13:24 Hateth his son - His fond affection, is as pernicious to him as hatred.