1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Numbers 14:18 | *The Lord is patient and full of mercy **taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, *who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Psalm 102:8.; Exodus 34:7.; Exodus 20:5. | Mercy. Septuagint, "merciful and true," as Exodus 34:6, 7. On that occasion, it is not written that God swore. (Haydock) --- But equal credit is to be given to his word, as to an oath. (Menochius) --- Clear, or, as St. Jerome expresses it in Exodus, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. (Calmet) --- By these titles God will be addressed; and therefore Moses mentions them all, though some of them might seem to obstruct his petition of pardon. (Menochius) --- He knew that none of God's perfections were contrary to one another, or to his nature of consummate goodness; and he sued for the pardon of his people, with all due submission to the dictates of his justice. (Haydock) |