(51) Parents and Children.

What now is has already been; what is to be, already is; and God restores what would otherwise be displaced. (Eccl 3:15)

Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out, «The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity, continuing his kindness for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for their fathers’ wickedness!» (Ex 34:6-7)

Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, what is the meaning of this proverb that you recite in the land of Israel: «Fathers have eaten green grapes, thus their children’s teeth are on edge»? As I live, says the Lord GOD: I swear that there shall no longer be anyone among you who will repeat this proverb in Israel. For all lives are mine; the life of the father is like the life of the son, both are mine; only the one who sins shall die. (Ezek 18:1-4)

From the time of our fathers even to this day great has been our guilt, and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered over, we and our kings and our priests, to the will of the kings of foreign lands, to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace, as is the case today. (Ezra 9:7)

Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against the LORD, our God, From our youth to this day, we and our fathers also; we listened not to the voice of the LORD, our God. (Jer 3:25)

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges. Endure your trials as «discipline»; God treats you as sons. For what «son» is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards. Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not (then) submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live? They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness. At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. (Heb 12:6-11)