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Mother
MOTHER (’em, "mother," "dam," "ancestress"; meter). The female parent of a child, and an integral part of the family as seen in both the Old Testament and New Testament.
Position in the Old Testament
In one place in the Law, the mother is even placed before the father as the object of filial reverence (
Position in the New Testament
What is true of the Old Testament is equally true of the New Testament. The same high type of womanhood, the same reverence for one’s mother is in evidence in both books. The birth of Christ lifted motherhood to the highest possible plane and idealized it for all time. The last thing Jesus did on the Cross was to bestow His mother on John "the beloved" as his special inheritance. What woman is today, what she is in particular in her motherhood, she owes wholly to the position in which the Scriptures have placed her. Sometimes the stepmother is spoken of as the real mother (
Tropically the nation is spoken of as a mother and the people are her children (