170. First, then, Paternal or parental power is nothing but that which parents have over their children, to govern them for the children's good, till they come to the use of reason, or a state of knowledge, wherein they may be supposed capable to understand that rule, whether it be the law of nature, or the municipal law of their country, they are to govern themselves by:
Hau da, gai diren arte legeak ezagutzeko, berorien mende bizi diren gainontzeko pertsona aske horiek beste. Jainkoak gurasoen bihotzean jarri zuen maitasun eta samurtasunak argi uzten du ez dela gobernu zorrotz eta arbitrarioa;