他们并不意味着父母可能会犯下的罪将在他们的后代中拜访。这些单词实际上意味着父母在抚养孩子时犯的错误将在第二代,甚至是第四代。
(They didn't mean that the sins a parent might commit would be visited on their offspring. The words actually meant that the mistakes a parent made while they were bringing up their children would be visited on the second, the third, even the fourth generation.)