 | Jean Calvin - 1841 - 700 pages
...souls with spiritual adultery. XIX. Let us inquire what he intends by his threatening to '• visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." For besides that it is inconsistent with the equity of the Divine justice to inflict upon... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1842 - 290 pages
...contradictory passages, without doctrine, are not reconcilable. It is said, that Jehovah visitelh " 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... | |
 | 1846 - 872 pages
...sons to support order, truth, and piet}' — or to abet error, and exemplify the visitation of the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. But I will pass from the remembrances of the remoter past, to speak of the death-bed scene... | |
 | Joseph Williams Blakesley - 1843 - 236 pages
...Jewish or Christian, — whether from that first dispensation which declared Him* to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him, but to show mercy unto tens of thousands in them that love Him, or that second... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1844 - 554 pages
...mercy rather than teverily — Limited in itt extent and application. EXODUS, XX. 5, 6. 41 Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of 41 them that hate me ; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love rue, and keep my " rulinii.miliiK-lr... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1854 - 490 pages
...call to judgment many sins together under one general punishment. Besides, we know that God casts the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. Lastly, there is nothing to prevent Him from visiting at another time with temporal punishments... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1845 - 768 pages
...awful inheritance is left to them, when the Lord says, I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ! They inherit no religious instruction — no pious example — no believing prayers... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1845 - 468 pages
...pointing us to the consequences which follow the practice of it. I would say also, that " visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation," (which is a part of another commandment), has an oriental shape ; for in the East, punishment... | |
 | Leicester Ambrose Sawyer - 1846 - 86 pages
...not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them ; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me, and showing mercy to thousands [of generations] of those that love me, and keep... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 532 pages
...became " HATERS OF GOD." In Exod. xx., 5, God says : " 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." And again : " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God ? Whosoever,... | |
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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... 
