Yesterday in the post on The Road to Perdition, I said that the film's story is based on the idea of the"sins of the fathers." Here are the biblical references.
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:
for 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;”
Exodus 20:5
“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The
LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in
goodness and truth, Keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that
will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the
fourth generation.” Exodus 34:6-7
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them:
for 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,”
Deuteronomy 5:9
“In those days they shall say no more,
The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
But
every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape,
his teeth shall be set on edge.
Behold,
the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that
I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant
they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But
this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and
write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And
they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother,
saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto
the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:29-34
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