...thyself to them', nor serve them'; for 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 who hate me', and showing mercy to thousands of them who love me and keep my commandinents. Thou shalt...

...rather than severity— Limited in its extent and application. EXODUS, XX. 5, 6. " Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of " them that hate me j and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my " commandments."...

...place, may be considered as part of the punishment for national offences, inflicted by Him who " visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation" — thus, by a kind of retributive justice, avenging the many innocent nations which were...

...Moses, he proclaims as one part of it, that " he will by no means clear the guilty -, and that he visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." This awful attribute is an important part of his goodness, and without it he could not...

...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...

...against God, in like manner, involves whole families of the wicked. God has said that he will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations ; and it was in accordance with this sovereign arrangement that he inspired his servant...

...divided into four books, ii. 126 ; translated into French metre by Clement Marot, iii. 495. Punishment of the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, God vindicated in doing so, i. 353. Purgatory, attempts of the Papists to support it from...

...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...

...condition ! What an 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...

...Traces of the number fouv, used in a somewhat similar sense, may be seen in the phrases : " Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ;" " in the fourth year the fruit shall be holy ;" the four kingdoms, in the book of Daniel...