...They do not bear in mind that awful threat — carried out through all nature : ' / will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.' And such parents do hate God, for they worship the World, and sacrifice their own children...

...upon the English sovereign. QUOTATIONS. — 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 that hate me. — Exod. xx. 5. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, .... visiting the iniquity of the...

...God whom we serve, being jealous of his worship, threatens the visiting of the father's transgression upon the children,- to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him ; yet does more abundantly extend his mercy, even to thousands (respecting the offspring and succeeding...

...administers his own government. We do not know the reason, but we know the fact, that God does visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. This is one of the evasions which my opponent uses when he is cornered. Let him tell us...

...distress. In the old and primary Commandments, the Hebrews had been taught, that God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those that hate Him. Yet for many centuries afterwards, the proverb was current in Israel, "The fathers...

...Eternal." (Deut. xviii. 9.) SECTION XV. The threatening with which this commandment closes, "visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation," appears to be irreconcilable with the declaration made : " The parent shall not die for...

...those who planted them : it was. from Mount Sinai alone that it was announced that God will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. 39. France prospered to an extraordinary and unprecedented degree during the fifteen years...

...presence. For he, the Lord our God, is a jealous God, and he visiteth all the fathers' sins on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him. His mercies on thousands fall, on all them that love him and keep his commandments. [MENDELSSOHN. 201...

...for, First, under the old dispensation, God had distinctly threatened, from the days of Moses, that he would visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations (Exod. xx. 5) ; and, by the mouth of Jeremiah, God announces, in the 15th chapter of his...

...suggested by those awful words, " For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation, of them that hate me ;" — it is thoughts like these, and not the thought of leaving behind a family pledged...