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" Israel marks a beginning in this direction, the deity of the time of the later prophets appears possessed of more humanitarian sentiments than those attributed to the old relentless Yahveh, whose Ten Commandments represent him as a "jealous god... "
The Sociological Value of Christianity - Page 15
by Georges Chatterton-Hill - 1912 - 285 pages
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Sermons Preached in the Temple Church

Alfred Ainger - 1870 - 360 pages
...understood it, of the Jewish law. In the second commandment of the Decalogue, God was revealed to Moses as a jealous God, " who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children." Now this declaration might come to confirm the secret suspicions of their hearts. That sin...
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Plain preaching for a year, ed. by E. Fowle, Volume 2

Edmund Fowle - 1873 - 446 pages
...of the second commandment, and you will see what I mean. The second commandment tells us that God is a jealous God, who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. Now a Jew would be quite justified in quoting this second...
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Music and Morals

Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1900 - 618 pages
...mourners seem to forget their sorrow for awhile and become rapt in the contemplation, not so much of a jealous God who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, as of one " whose mercies fall upon thousands." In this wider and more consolatory view of...
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Myth, Magic, and Morals: A Study of Christian Origins

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare - 1910 - 438 pages
...maimed, crippled, or tainted with hereditary disease and madness. It is poor comfort to read that God is a jealous god, who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. It is all too true that they are so visited, but the intelligent...
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A History of French Literature, Volume 1

Charles Henry Conrad Wright - 1912 - 994 pages
...what speaks in it is, indeed, the spirit of Jehoyah, the austerity of Calvinism and of Jansenism, of a jealous God who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, rather than the friendly deity of Catholicism, whom the French call "le bon Dieu." In this...
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An Invisible Kingdom: Being Some Chapters in Ethics

William Samuel Lilly - 1919 - 248 pages
...the deity of the time of the later prophets appears possessed of more humanitarian sentiments than the old relentless Yahveh whose Ten Commandments represent him as ' a jealous god.' " He continues : But the great religious revolution, whereby religion, whilst remaining true to its...
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The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 73, Part 1

1913 - 740 pages
...the deity of the time of the later prophets appears possessed of more humanitarian sentiments than the old relentless Yahveh whose Ten Commandments represent him as " a jealous god." ' He continues : But the great religious revolution, whereby religion, whilst remaining true to its...
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Either/or, Part 1, Volume 3

Robert L. Perkins - 1995 - 320 pages
...fact that the Hebrew idea of God is more ethically developed than the Greek. When Yahweh is said to be a jealous God who visits the sins of the fathers upon the third and fourth generations, even this is not the occasion for tragedy, since his terrible curses...
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Yahweh Versus Yahweh: The Enigma of Jewish History

Jay Y. Gonen - 2005 - 204 pages
...issuing a warning against worshiping other deities, he went on to describe himself: "I Yahweh your God am a jealous God who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but who shows benevolence to thousands...
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