children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin”. The outraged moral feeling of humanity may cry out and demand the death of the person who has broken the law, but the prayer for the destruction of his infant children cannot be justified simply on the basis of the moral feeling of mankind. This explanation, while it recognizes certain essential features of the Imprecatory Psalms, cannot be regarded as satisfactory or adequate because it fails to recognize