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JCDenton Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Please explain me this sentence.

Hi guys,
please how do you understand this sentence?

"The sins of the father will be visited upon the son."
I have an dilemma here, does it mean...
a) The sins of the father affects the son...?
b) The sins of the father will be transfered on his son? In the other words, the son will be like his father? In the meaning that he will be commiting the same sins?
Many thanks in advance!

Best Regards
JCD
  

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Hi, The son will be punished for his father's sins. Usually by the son's being the victim of the same kind of sin, eg the father steals, and later someone steals from the son. ( It doesn't seem fair, does it?

— Clive

  • Hi, The son will be punished for his father's sins.
  • Usually by the son's being the victim of the same kind of sin, eg the father steals, and later someone steals from the son.
  • ( It doesn't seem fair, does it?
  • ) Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,
The son will be punished for his father's sins.
Usually by the son's being the victim of the same kind of sin, eg the father steals, and later someone steals from the son.

( It doesn't seem fair, does it? )

Best wishes, Clive
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Thanks Clive! [Y]
Your definition fits into my context. Father of one teenager boy left him and his mother high and dry. That teenager boy has grown up and he did the same thing to his son...In the other word he commited the same sin as his father...Sentence, which I posted in this thread, was an reaction on that fact.

thanks again for help!
oops, it's really late here in europe
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Actually, JCD, that doesn't fit.
Let's say a man was not a nice person, and he stole from someone. That someone then makes life miserable for the first man's son. That's the case of the sins of the father being visited on the son.
In your situation, the sins of the father were REPEATED by the son.
By the way: Explain this sentence to me, not Explain me this sentence.
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Hi GG,
Grammar Geek Actually, JCD, that doesn't fit.
Let's say a man was not a nice person, and he stole from someone. That someone then makes life miserable for the first man's son. That's the case of the sins of the father being visited on the son.

Ah, many thanks for correction...
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I've seen the "explain me" mistake in many, many English learners.
It doesn't fit the pattern you've learned. Give me the book = Give the book to me. Send her the letter = Send the letter to her. But "explain me this sentence" doesn't work that way.
Just one of the ones you'll have to memorize, I guess.
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Thanks GG, I'll try to cram that into my head...:-))
Best Regards
JCD
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in the same way that sin entered into the whole world even so we pass on to our children the state of our soul as we are bound to the soul of Adam we are bound to the soul of our parents and only being born again and being given a new heart a new creation can we overcome by trusting with the heart not with our intelect but knowing that his word is love and walking by faith . our sins even a
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Hi,
Thisis hard for the reader.
You need to revise it to ensure that each sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period.

Best wishes, Clive
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