you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
⛓ Read Exodus 20 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously' rests on the self-revelation of the LORD as 'a jealous God'; the divine jealousy that brooks no rival is exactly what makes friendship with the world enmity. Exodus 34:14 ('the LORD, whose name is Jealous') is the same datum.
High confidenceThe disciples' question 'who sinned, this man or his parents' presupposes the Decalogue principle of God visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children. The transgenerational logic is precisely what is at issue; Volume is moderate and Coherence high, since Johannine sin-theology engages the retribution framework only to overturn it.
Medium confidence