 | 1874 - 906 pages
...children. It is a philosophical, physical, and moral truth, in the form of a threat, that God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of those who violate His laws. After a long while, the day of reckoning always comes, to nation as to... | |
 | Ebenezer Clapp - 1876 - 622 pages
...contained in the second commandment — 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 to thousands of them that lore me and keep my commandments. Now every... | |
 | 1877 - 794 pages
...Most High is not bound by this law in his own decisions. He himself declares, that he visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him. There can be no suspicion of error in this statement horn the defective inspiration... | |
 | American Association on Mental Deficiency - 1877 - 1178 pages
...continue unfavorable, to arrive at idiocy, and thus sometimes in stern literalness is visited " the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." ON TEMPORARY LOSS OF SPEECH FROM SHOCK AFTER A SERIES OF SEVERE EPILEPTIC FITS. By FLETCHER... | |
 | Ebenezer Coloham Brewer - 1878 - 476 pages
...till Achan was cut off. — Joshua, vii. 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... | |
 | Albert E. Sims - 1878 - 84 pages
...begotten. And here is the law of hereditary transmission or penalty, (Exodus, xx. 4, 5, 6,) " visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." Thus innocent ones are frequently made life-long sufferers by their drinking, smoking,... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1878 - 736 pages
...forgiving iniquity transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation." The whole Jewish dispensation was one long display of these Divine attributes, and afforded... | |
 | William Henry Green - 1878 - 292 pages
...rule for human judgment. Not to be confounded with God's dealings. He expressly says He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, (Ex. 20 : 5). Constantly acts on this principle. This was not a human judgment, but God's... | |
 | Thomas Welbank Fowle - 1879 - 384 pages
...first, that the punishment of idolatry is said to consist in this — " that God will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him, but that He will show mercy unto thousands of them that love Him and keep His commandments."... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1879 - 756 pages
...forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation." The whole Jewish dispensation was one long display of these Divine attributes, and afforded... | |
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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... 
