...wretched outcast, the victim of his own rash conduct, and of an overruling destiny that visits "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation." Many of the Greek plays were first brought out in three connected pieces, called a trilogy,...

...soul that sins, it, and it only, shall bear the punishment of its sins. But does not God visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation ?a True, we reply, the children of ungodly parents suffer many evils in consequence of the...

...contradictory passages without doctrine, are not reconcileable. It is said, that Jehovah visiteth "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation" (Numb. xiv. 18); and it is likewise said, "that the fathers shall not be put to death for...

...bow down to them, nor be induced to serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a zealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, to those who hate Me; and showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me, and keep My...

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

...the parents -eat the sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge; God does visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation; and our experience teaches us that it is absurd to talk of a law having been repealed, of the power and...

...can leave to his descendants, the nobility "of virtue. The commandment says, ' that God visits the iniquity [of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of those that hate him ;' but it makes no limit to the extension of His love, for ' He shows...

...children. It is a philosophical, physical, and moral truth, in the form of a threat, that God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of those who violate His laws. After a long while, the day of reckoning always comes, to...

...continue unfavorable, to arrive at idiocy, and thus sometimes in stern literalness is visited " the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." ON TEMPORARY LOSS OF SPEECH FROM SHOCK AFTER A SERIES OF SEVERE EPILEPTIC FITS. By FLETCHER...

...forgiving iniquity transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation." The whole Jewish dispensation was one long display of these Divine attributes, and afforded...