 | 1901 - 744 pages
...always, in some measure, recognised the laws of heredity. In the ancient Mosaic law we read : " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." In the sacred laws of Manu we find : " A woman always brings into the world a son... | |
 | 1846 - 1050 pages
...it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father." (Ezek. xviii. 19, 20.) " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation :" so said the lawgiver Moses, with one object in view; and so says the physician,... | |
 | 1849 - 346 pages
...there a more striking exemplification of that fearful menace in the third commandment — " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." The talents of the marquis were great, but, untrained and undisciplined, they exhibited... | |
 | 1851 - 372 pages
...generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. In the decalogue it is said the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation, but here the penalty of a crime is stretched over ten generations ! Why should God... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 478 pages
...parent to offspring by a law of nature, as names descend by a law of custom. God still ordains that the bodily iniquities of the fathers shall be visited...backward and see how the numbers of our ancestors are doubled at each remove in the ascending scale, it affrights us to reflect how many confluent streams... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1856 - 670 pages
...parent to offspring by a law of nature, as names descend by a law of custom. God still ordains that the bodily iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the.third and fourth generation. "When we look backward and see how the numbers of our ancestors is... | |
 | Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth - 1859 - 498 pages
...inaudibly — " The curse of the ruined girl has fallen, and not her curse only. Even so ! ' the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation !' " " Sir," said the physician, who deeply pitied the father's disappointment, "... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1860 - 612 pages
...God of the Hebrews, written on the sacred tablets of Moses, kept in their holy Ark, reads, " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth' generation of those who hate me." This virtuous prince is therefore sacrificed for the guilt... | |
 | S. Phillips - 1860 - 406 pages
...children, and the consequence of such a life is also entailed upon their offspring. " The iniquity of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." If the parent " sow, to the flesh," the child, with him, " shall of the flesh reap... | |
 | William Washington Evans - 1861 - 150 pages
...seeds of misery and misfortune ; and hence may be seen the wisdom of God's declaration, .'The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." In the days of Abraham, God admonished and I directed man, by outward observance... | |
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... iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. 
