...witnessed for God amongst the captives. And their function was more than that of witness. God, who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him, shows mercy to thousands of them that love Him and keep His commandments....

...instead of the promise of innumerable posterity, the assurance of eternal life ; instead of visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations, the Holy Spirit which overshadows all. We see, then, that the doctrines of the Old Testament...

...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...

...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...

...the voice of the Judge of All the Earth, stern and clear in answer to his passionate appeal : "The sins of the fathers upon the children ... to the third and fourth generation." The Emperor started in fear. There was silence for a while, and then the voice echoed...

...condemnable tit 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...

...these commandments ? Answer. — Thus saith He : I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, who visiteth the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. But to them that love me and keep my commandments I do good unto the thousandth generation. What doth this...

...is not exaggerating the truth to say, it is never fully reaped) by the generation that sows it. God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. And the worst natural consequences of sin, and even many of its spiritual consequences,...

...The wicked prosper, the good suffer. The problems of sin, pain, and evil are insoluble. Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, making the innocent suffer for the offenses of the guilty, is an unjust and cruel law that...

...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. In his preface Grillparzer endeavors to palliate or deny the fact that he is a Fate-tragedian;...