Abstract
This chapter begins with a quotation of the fifth commandment, which in some respects at the beginning of ch 6 resembles that of Gen 2.24 a couple of verses earlier. A suspicion arises that the writer of ch 6 was deliberately trying to show the continuity between his Christian moral teaching and Old Testament (OT) ethics, and in this case even contemporary Greco-Roman ethics. This chapter proceeds to ascertain which OT variant of the fifth commandment the writer had in view. This is followed by a survey of the role of the fifth commandment and child-parent relationships both inner-Biblically as well as extra-Biblically. A study of the significance of households for early Christians then leads into an exegesis of Ephesians (Eph) 6.1-4. The OT text was important enough for the author of Ephesians to re-arrange the Colossian Vorlage in order to accommodate the fifth commandment.Keywords: child-parent relationship; Ephesians (Eph) 6.1-4; fifth commandment; Old Testament (OT) ethics
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