Understand it thus, if the one be free from the guilt of the other's sin, and except in those cases where the sovereign Lord of life and death, before whom none is innocent, hath commanded it, as Deu 13 Jos 7:24. For this law is given to men, not to God; and though God do visit the father's sins upon the children, Exo 20, yet he will not suffer men to do so. For his own sin, understand only, and not for any other man's sin.
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Deuteronomy 24:16
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.