The "Rod" was what Knowledge was preserved on. Give your child Knowledge OR spoil (or care for it when it's old) the Child when it is older.

I learned of this too late in parenthood as my children were grown, It was explained to me by what many would call a "Jew" but he called himself a Hebrew......I made a deal to purchase a firearm about 6 years ago and it was a face to face purchase on the far northside of our County and well we got to talking about children and he got to laughing about the the often misqouted non existent Christian term "Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child". He explained that Hebrews give their Children Knowledge, NOT a Beating. Search it out for yourself, there is [link to www.helium.com] a link to start you on your journey. In addition, "Thou shalt not Kill" is also a LIE, "Thou shalt NOT Murder" is correct BUT Murder and Killing are not the same BUT they have ONE thing in common DEATH! The reasons and motivations are very different from each other.

ETA: I bought the firearm and he bought it back from me sometime later.......Our Father truly works in mysterious ways!

Christ is not on a Cross.........He has Arisen!