Calvin on visiting the iniquities of fathers to the children unto the 3rd and 4th generation: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/calvin/deuteronomy/5.htm "To visit iniquities," is equivalent to inquiring into them, or taking cognizance of them, in order that punishment should be inflicted in proportion to the crime; for as long as God spares men and suspends His judgment, He seems to connive at them, or to pay no attention to them. Therefore, when men shall think that their sin is buried, He declares that He will bear it in memory. But it may be asked, how it is consistent for God to exact punishment from the children or grandchildren on account of the sins of their fathers? for nothing is more unreasonable than that the innocent and guilty should be involved in the same punishment; and the declaration of the Prophet is well known, "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; but the soul that sinneth, it sha...
Matthew Henry on 1 Tim. 6, stating that Christianity heightens the duties of slaves to their masters, and that the Gospel/grace does not erase nature or civil relations, but underscores them: "Here is the duty of servants. The apostle had spoken before of church-relations, here of our family-relations. Servants are here said to be under the yoke, which denotes both subjection and labour ; they are yoked to work, not to be idle. If Christianity finds servants under the yoke, it continues them under it; for the gospel does not cancel the obligations any lie under either by the law of nature or by mutual consent . They must respect their masters, count them worthy of all honour (because they are their masters), of all the respect, observance, compliance, and obedience, that are justly expected from servants to their masters. Not that they were to think that of them which they were not; but as their masters they must count them worthy of all that honour which was fit for them to re...