...would he be sent. Their sacred annals showed that Jehovah was a jealous God who visited the iniquities of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation. In the olden days the people, God's chosen people, had been terribly punished whenever they had sinned....

...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...

...shalt not worship them, neither serve them for I am the Lord thy God a jealous God giving back the sins of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation to those hating me 6 and doing mercy to thousand loving me and watching my commandments 7 thou shalt...

...be inherited from an ancestor just as neurotic or nervous diseases. The law which visits " the sins of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation," still holds good, and many have descended to drunkards' graves in consequence of the grandsires' excesses....

...laws written on the two tables of Moses,--for "I, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation;"--yea, written before Moses, and to be read unto this day in the very constitution of man,...

...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...