Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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