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I Should Mention .... That I myself received a figurative "rod" at home, and I gave it only once or twice to my own kids - who thereafter never needed to be spanked again, only threatened. And they...

You asked about Proverbs 13:24?

Thank you for asking. I had not noticed that it ran so parallel to my
own example. But does it also have a similar meaning to the other verse?

Yes, this is yet...

Where did you go to church? While the nuns in school spanked my hands and rear on a regular basis, I can honestly say I had never been spanked in church and can't imagine hitting a slow learner! ...

Hundreds. The Book of Proverbs and Psalms were designed to instruct; to teach the youths or inexperienced ones what really was most true about life, and they are a sort of philosophy as well. But...

I'm placing this in the legends thread since many of us know the legendary saying of "spare the rod and spoil the child" but few know how that phrase came to be.

I was researching another topic...