« Upon this Generation, Type and Antitype.—The Great Tribulation a Legitimate Effect from Preceding Causes.—The Responsibilities of “Christendom,ˮ and Hek Attitude Toward Them.—Of Civil Authorities, OF Religious Leaders, of the Various Ranks of the Masses of Men IN Civilized Lands.—The Relationship of the Heathen Nations to Christendom and to the Trouble.—The Judgment of God.—“Vengeance is Mine : I Will Repay, Saith the Lord.ˮ (2) “Verily, I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.ˮ—Matt. 23:34-36 ; Luke 11:50,51. (3) To those unaccustomed to weighing principles from the standpoint of an exact moral philosophy, it may seem strange that a subsequent generation of humanity should suffer the penalty of the accumulated crimes of several preceding generations ; yet, since such is the expressed judgment of God, who cannot err, we should expect mature consideration to make manifest the justice of his decision. In the above words, our Lord declared that thus it should be with the generation of fleshly Israel whom he addressed in the end of the typical Jewish Age. » — Livre : Millennial dawn, volume IV, The day of vengeance, first edition of 1897, page 47 § 1-3.