History as past ethics; an introduction to the history of morals

by P. V. N. Myers

[395] Ibid. xliv. 24.

[396] Ibid. xlv. 5.

[397] Ibid. xlvi. 9.

[398] There is a repetition of this in the Koran, where the Prophet of Arabia speaks as one to whom the idea of the unity of deity had come as a new thought.

[399] W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites (1894), p. 81.

[400] See above, pp. 18–20.

[401] “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”—Deut. v. 9.

[402] Ezek. xviii. 2.

[403] Ibid. xviii. 3.

[404] Ezek. xviii. 20. The entire chapter is devoted to this single subject. This truer view had dawned upon the compilers of the Deuteronomic code. Cf. Deut. xxiv. 16 and Jer. xxxi. 29, 30.