20 Whoso revileth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. See note on chap. 19:26. No parents are perfect in all their ways, but, like civil authorities, they are to be honored because of their position. They stand to children in God’s stead. To honor the father and mother is to honor Him who has created us and established the home, setting the solitary in families. Therefore he who reviles his parents shall find his light put out, and be left in the darkness. Even