 | Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1841 - 594 pages
...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... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1841 - 318 pages
...implication to be. This sense of the passage is distinctly recognized in the Chai, version ; 'I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the transgressing children, unto the third 6 And ' shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - Catechisms - 1843 - 196 pages
...guilty of idolatry: that is, of serving an idol, as the word properly signifies. Fur I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, &o. Here it hath pleased God to back and enforce this law with several reasons and arguments, to make... | |
 | Joseph Williams Blakesley - 1843 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Theology - 1856 - 924 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Graves - Bible - 1844 - 554 pages
...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... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Bible - 1849 - 842 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1845 - 768 pages
...How melancholy is their condition ! What an awful inheritance is left to them, when the Lord says, I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers...children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ! They inherit no religious instruction — no pious example — no believing prayers... | |
 | Moses Stuart - Apocalyptic literature - 1845 - 696 pages
...15 al. Traces of the number four, 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... | |
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Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them ; for I, the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands... 
