Answer: Superiors are styled father and mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations₁; and to work inferiors to a greater willingness and cheerfulness in performing their duties to their superiors, as to their parents.₂

1. Eph 6:4; 2 Cor 12:14; 1 Th 2:7–8, 11; Num 11:11–12;
2. 1 Cor 4:14–16; 2 Kgs 5:13