 | Adrien Nampon - 1869 - 770 pages
...representations of created things; "for I am the Lord thy God, jealous (of My glory), visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me.2 Evidently it is the worship of false gods, or idolatry, which this law reprobates as... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1869 - 450 pages
...God is our Father ; and He will not punish the innocent for the guilty." " ' I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,' " said Mrs. Denham, in a tone of triumph. " ' And I will show mercy unto thousands of... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1869 - 514 pages
...soul that sins, it, and it only, shall bear the punishment of its sins. But does not God visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation ?a True, we reply, the children of ungodly parents suffer many evils in consequence of the... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1870 - 262 pages
...contradictory passages without doctrine, are not reconcileable. 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 for... | |
 | D. L. SHIRRES - 1871 - 550 pages
...the offspring of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who taught Israel to sin. The Lord visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them who hate him, while he shows mercy to thousands of them who love him and keep his commandments. " And... | |
 | Lady Battersea (Constance) - 1871 - 660 pages
...bow down to them, nor be induced to serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a zealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, to those who hate Me; and showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me, and keep My... | |
 | Marcus Moritz Kalisch - 1872 - 666 pages
...appalling distress. In the old and primary Commandments, the Hebrews had been taught, that God visit« the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those that half Him. Yet for many centuries afterwards, the proverb was current in Israel, "The fathers... | |
 | William Tandy - 1873 - 168 pages
...can leave to his descendants, the nobility "of virtue. The commandment says, ' that God visits the iniquity [of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of those that hate him ;' but it makes no limit to the extension of His love, for ' He shows mercy unto... | |
 | Heinrich Ziegler - 1873 - 248 pages
...commandments ? In the 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, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments." 183.... | |
 | Jane Margaret Hooper - 1874 - 580 pages
...do not bear in mind that awful threat — carried out through all nature : ' I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that liate me.' And such parents do hate God, for they worship the World, and sacrifice their own children... | |
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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... 
