As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him. For he knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:13-14 PATENTS Putting it mildly, the Bibles view of patenting differs from our contemporary view. The ancient world (and the modern world, at least until the last fifty years) believed in strictness and physical punishment for children, He that spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently (Proverbs 13:24). Yet some things have not changed: Parents in biblical days, as now, were expected to love their children, to keep them from harm, and to pass on to them whatever values they cherished. Then there is the flip side: Children should love and honor their parents, respecting them as authority figures just as the parents should respect the ultimate Authority figure, God. We need to remember that God in the Bible is a complex figure---strict and highly moral but also loving and tender, merciful toward those who make mistakes. Parents are expected to be the same way toward their own children. -----J. Stephen Lang Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is older he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
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