Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 2:50

50 And they understood not the saying, which he spake unto them.

Some read it—that I must be in my Fathers House, then the Sense must be, Why did you seek me in any other place then the Temple, that is▪ my Fathers House, there lyeth my Business. But the Phrase seemeth rather to signify as we Translate it. He doth here signify that God was his Father, that Mary might have known not only from the Revelation of the Angel, but because she had not known Man, but she did not yet fully understand his Divine Office as Mediator ▪ and the great Prophet promised, that should reveal the Will of God, to People, much less did she yet fully and distinctly understand, that he was by Nature the Eternal Son of God. She believed so much as was revealed to her clearly, concerning Christ. It is said they understood not the saying, which he spake unto them, they had not a clear, and distinct understanding of▪ them. In the mean time from these Words of our Saviour, and this Fact of his. We may learn, That Inferiours are not in all things under the Power of their most Natural Superiors. Particularly not in such things wherein they cannot yield obedience to them, without a disobedience unto God. There are some Cases wherein instead of obeying, we are bound to hate both Father and Mother by our Saviours Precept.

Marginal references: Chap. 9.45. & 18.34