Veneration
Summary
Veneration is an affection compounded of awe and love that creatures appropriately bear toward God and that children properly show toward aged parents and elders.
☩Proper Veneration
Veneration represents a fitting response of creatures toward their infinitely perfect Creator, combining reverent awe with loving devotion. Scripture also teaches veneration of parents, with Jacob blessing Joseph's sons showing proper honor across generations. The command to honor father and mother encompasses this reverential attitude. Rising before the aged and honoring the face of the old man expresses the same veneration extending beyond one's immediate family to elders in the community generally.
Key verses:Genesis 48:15-16Leviticus 19:32Exodus 20:12
