 | Max Duncker - 1879 - 472 pages
...no pleasure in the punishment of evil-doers, but in their amendment ; who, it is true, " visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, but also has mercy on thousands who love him." l This God may not be worshipped under an... | |
 | Robert Sutton (headmaster of the training sch, Swinton.) - 1879 - 188 pages
...God threatened in this commandment to deter His people from breaking it ? A. That He will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ie, that God will not only punish the guilty person, but also his children. Q. Is this... | |
 | Adolf Hausrath - 1880 - 280 pages
...Israel was to him a Friend and Father. Did others see how God was jealous of His right, and visited the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, — he saw how this same God sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust, and maketh His... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1882 - 184 pages
...condescension on his part, not as a claim on the part of his subjects. Nay, he was a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation,—in this, above all, an Oriental monarch, for there it was customary to involve all the... | |
 | Golo Raimund - 1882 - 396 pages
...in her arms she will be once more reconciled with herself and with the world. The God who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, will yet answer the filial prayer that comes from a heart so pure and true as yours." .... | |
 | Helen Shipton - 1884 - 206 pages
...after me all the while, and boun' to be good to me, what does it mean when it says that He'll visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ? " lad's wide, hollow eyes, full of doubt and hope and fear. Then he turned again towards... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 516 pages
...condemnable at a single glance. It is nothing but the old story of Fate ; an invisible Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; a method almost as common and sovereign in German Art, at this day, as the method of steam... | |
 | 1886 - 820 pages
...hopeless, are the outcome of apostasy and rejection of the light, in generations past. God " visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of them that hate him." Or, to listen again to Paul : " Even as they did not like to retain... | |
 | John Hancock Pettingell - 1887 - 382 pages
...meaning. In the giving of the Law from Sinai, when God proclaimed Himself as visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation — and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Him and keep His commandments ; in the responsive utterances... | |
 | John James Given - 1888 - 588 pages
...footsteps of godless parents, suffer by the sad heritage of those parents' guilt ; for God "visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him." It has been well said that " God visits the sins of the parents... | |
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Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation... 
