Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 24:16
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Deuteronomy24:16
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers : every man shall be put to death for his own sin .
Understand it thus, if the one be free from the guilt of the others sin, and except in those cases where the soveraign Lord of Life and Death, before whom none is innocent, hath commanded it, as Deut. 13. Ios. 7. 24. For this law is given to men, not to God, and though God do visit the fathers sins upon the children, Exod. 20. yet he will not suffer men to do so.
Understand onely, and not for any other mans sin.
Marginal references: 2 King. 14. 6. 2 Chron. 25. 4. Jer. 31. 29, 30. Ezek. 18. 20.
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