 | 1853 - 886 pages
...expected. This also explains that saying, at which only the ignorant stumble,— " Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hnte me," — that is, of those children who walk in the footsteps of their fathers' sins, and... | |
 | C B Porter - 1853 - 336 pages
...suggested by those awful words, " For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation, of them that hate me," — it is thoughts like these, and not the thought of leaving behind a family pledged... | |
 | 1853 - 344 pages
...people, when their iniquities provoked the displeasure of the Almighty. • / will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, is an established principle of divine government over man, and it is not likely that... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...jest upon the English sovereign. QUOTATIONS. — I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. — Exod. xx. 5. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, .... visiting the iniquity of the... | |
 | William Fleetwood (bp. of Ely.) - 1854 - 404 pages
...visited in wrath, see that you live yourselves in all obedience to his laws ; for he vnll visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him. We may well presume upon the justice of God in these proceedings without staying to... | |
 | Jane Margaret Hooper - 1854 - 308 pages
...do not bear in mind that awful threat — carried out through all nature : ' / will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.' And such parents do hate God, for they worship the World, and sacrifice their own children... | |
 | 1854 - 152 pages
...great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, upon the children to the third and fourth generation. Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy... | |
 | 1872 - 704 pages
...appalling distress. In the old and primary Commandments, the Hebrews had been taught, that God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those that hate Him. Yet for many centuries afterwards, the proverb was current in Israel, "The fathers... | |
 | Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1855 - 334 pages
...contradictory passages, without doctrine, are not reconcilable. It is said, that Jehovah visiteth " the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation" (Numb. xiv. 18) ; and it is likewise said, " that the fathers shall not be put to death... | |
 | Eliphalet Nott - 1857 - 388 pages
...suggested by those awful words, " For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation, of them that hate me ;" — it is thoughts like these, and not the thought of leaving behind a family pledged... | |
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... you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation... 
