HIs mother, and] The mother is named first, because children being most familiar with their mothers, are most apt to contemne them; and therefore to make them the more to reverence them, they are required to hearken to the words of their mother as to a law, Proverbs 1:8. but to the words of their father as to an instruction; the tie of obedience being for caution, made most strict, where disobedience was most like to breake out. and keepe my Sabbaths] In the Decalogue or tenne Commandements, the Commandement of the Sabbath is set before the Commandement of honouring of Parents; because that of the Sabbath is a duty of the first Table, and the Commandement for obedience to parents is a dutie of the second Table; but here the order is first for obedience to parents, because they are charged with the observation of the Sabbath, both for themselves, and for their children, and servants, Exodus 20. vers. 10.