...can be nugatory in the control even of our daily concerns. If it be true that God " visits the sins of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generations of them that hate him," and that the seed of the righteous man is never seen begging his...

...always recognized this to some extent. The old doctrine has passed into a proverb, "Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation." Those who brought the blind man to Jesus said, "Master, who did sin, this man or his father, that he...

...the waters, shall, after many days, return with increase, will as certainly punish " the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation." Exposed to the operation of these agencies, and writhing under the withering influences of the unconcealed...

...beings absolutely perfect in other respects. ' The Lord thy God is a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation,' is a text we all hear every week ; and Herodotus, a perfectly independent authority, living in another...

...things. Since my boyhood I have lived in terror of the just God — the just God — who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation. I — Baird — " his voice dropping, his face pallid, " I have hated Him. I keep His laws, it is my...

...he illustrates both the older view of the implacable justice of the god, who visited the iniquities of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation, and the serene piety of the age of Pericles, which mitigated the wrath of heaven and transformed the envy...

...children ; " at another tame he is jealous and vindictive, a ' consuming fire, ' who "visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation." The blessings promised to the obedient are indeed great, but the curses heaped upon the disobedient...

...inherited from their parents a legacy of death and our hearts go out to them. " I will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation," is forcibly fulfilled in the lives of these people — not that our Heavenly Father, like a cruel tyrant,...

...Kings 11. nff. ; 21. 29f. ; Isa. 14. 21. Decalogue19 it is declared that Yahweh visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation. Moreover this custom of treating the family as a moral unit was not confined to the earlier periods...

...popular sense. Indeed, it would be difficult to associate popular justice with a God who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generations and who sends his rain on the just and the unjust and makes his sun to shine on the good...