...condemnable at a single glance. It is nothing but the old Story of Fate; an invisible Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation; a method almost as common and sovereign in German Art, at this day, as the method of steam...

...do suffer, and very many of them die ; so true is it, that God in nature does " visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ;" and with this fact before us, it is as useless as it is impious to murmur against God, and ask, " Why hast...

...between himself and the Jewish nation, — that of the married state. The other — " That he visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him," — involves the awful doctrine of the parental transmission of...

...the inference from these narratives in the well-known declaration, that God will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; and also in the general principle, both of the Bible and of God's providential government, that children...

...none was offered ; the gate was strait before, and now it was made yet straiter. He who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation even in them that fear Him, has not yet ceased to chasten both churchmen and dissenters...

...the inference from these narratives in the well-known declaration, that God will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; and also in the general principle, both of the Bible and of God's providential government, that children...

...Scriptures of those hard-hearted and vengeful Semites, the Jews, who represent their God as visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, should still be transmitted as God's Word ? Another note informs us what Dr. Bostrom means...

...None can prescribe unto Him. He can punish when He pleases, and how He pleases, often " visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him." We do not read in the history of Saul of the crime which is here...

...and dates back to the fall of man, when the Almighty revealed to the race, that he would "visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." Awful and impressive as this enunciation is, the warning is sometimes unheeded by the...

...with him. — (See Dr. A.Clarke's Comment, on Joshua vii. 26 The meaning of the phrase, "visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation," 1 apprehend, signifies that God would reckon, account, or punish, (which are all equally...