| National fast - 1847 - 204 pages
...when we remember that He has threatened (and we often see this threat fu!611ed) that He will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, we may well shudder at the rashness of any man, who would screen himself from the reproach... | |
| John Kitto - 1866 - 524 pages
...that the 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... | |
| Edmund Gibson - 1848 - 422 pages
...God." And that we might not think it a light matter to provoke his jealousy, he adds, " and 1 visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." I know who they are, that would fain believe the worship of no other... | |
| Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 618 pages
...preparation for the doctrine of the immortality of the soul may be found in the divine threat to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation. This accustomed the fathers to live, in imagination, with their latest posterity, and to... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1850 - 496 pages
...Augustin referred also to the Word itself in confirmation of his position, stating that " God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation." (Exod. xx. 5, xxxiv. 7 ; Dent. v. 9.) But here it must not be forgotten, that only the... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...Augustin referred also to the Word itself in. confirmation of his position, stating that "God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation." (Exod. xx. 5, xxxiv. 7 ; Deut. v. 9.) But here it must not be forgotten, that only the... | |
| Rev. Thomas Mitchell - 1851 - 546 pages
...; and as we intended to give all objections their full force, we shall refer to it, It is this : " Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generations of them that hate me." We see by this that the sins to be visited upon the children are... | |
| Edward Rogers - 1851 - 188 pages
...threatens punishment to those who worship them, because the Almighty is a jealous God, and visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. What is the reward of those who keep the commandments ? Eternal happiness. This commandment... | |
| 1853 - 1080 pages
...sacrifice, he did it in the consciousness of his guilt as against a personal holy God, who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, and in holy reTerence before the God whom his eyes could not see and could not reach in... | |
| 1854 - 512 pages
...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... | |
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