the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Mga Panaghoy 5:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fathers: Exodus 20:5, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 31:29, Ezekiel 18:2, Matthew 23:32-36
and are: Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:36, Job 7:8, Job 7:21, Jeremiah 31:15, Zechariah 1:5
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:13 - because our fathers 2 Chronicles 29:6 - For our fathers 2 Chronicles 29:9 - our fathers Ezra 9:7 - Since the days Nehemiah 1:6 - both I Jeremiah 3:25 - we and our Ezekiel 16:58 - hast Ezekiel 18:19 - Why Zechariah 1:2 - Lord
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not,.... In the world, as the Targum adds; they were in being, but not on earth; they were departed from hence, and gone into another world; and so were free from the miseries and calamities their children were attended with, and therefore more happy:
and we have borne their iniquities; the punishment of them, or chastisement for them: this is not said by way of complaint, much less as charging God with injustice, in punishing them for their fathers' sins, or to excuse theirs; for they were ready to own that they had consented to them, and were guilty of the same; but to obtain mercy and pity at the hands of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And are not; and we ... - Or, they are not; “we have borne their iniquities.” Our fathers who began this national apostasy died before the hour of punishment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not — Nations, as such, cannot be punished in the other world; therefore national judgments are to be looked for only in this life. The punishment which the Jewish nation had been meriting for a series of years came now upon them, because they copied and increased the sins of their fathers, and the cup of their iniquity was full. Thus the children might be said to bear the sins of the fathers, that is, in temporal punishment, for in no other way does God visit these upon the children. See Ezekiel 18:1, &c.
