9
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me
Highlighted
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Serve. We must neither treat idols, nor their images, with the honour due to God alone. Saint Augustine q. 61. in Gen.—If we do, he will punish our infidelity.—Generation, for a long time, or as long as the remembrance of the parents’ wickedness subsists, so as to have an influence upon others. Bible.—God mercifully defers correction. Saint Jerome in Ezec. xvii. He chastises those who imitate their wicked forefathers.
Private to this browser.