that all that land (including all those _ites_) should be his and his seed's after him--"that his seed shall be strangers in a land not theirs, and be afflicted four hundred years, and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; _but in the fourth generation_ they shall come hither again, _for the iniquity of the Amorites_" (these representing all the ites), "is _not yet full_." In the fourth generation their cup of iniquity would _then_ be full--in the fourth generation God gave this order to exterminate these ites, and to leave nothing alive that breathes. If this filling of their cup, referred to _moral_ crimes to be committed, or to moral obliquity as such, then it is _very strange_. If this be its reference, then these people were, at _that_ time (four generations previous to this order for their extermination), _worse_ than the very devil himself, as it was not long before they did fill _their cup_, and the devil's cup is not full yet. If this filling up of iniquity, referred to their _moral conduct_ in the sight of God, how was Moses or Joshua to _see_ that it was full, or _when_ it was full? Yet, they must _know_ it, or they would not know when to commence exterminating, as God intended. How were they to know it? As in the case of Sodom they had a few Lots among them, and the _color_ would soon tell when their iniquity was full, and neither Moses nor Joshua would be at any loss when to begin, or who to exterminate. Consummated amalgamation would tell _when_ their cup of iniquity was full. The iniquity of the Amorites (these representing all) is not _yet_ full, is the language of God--in the fourth generation it will be full, and _then_ Abraham's seed should possess the land, and these _ites_ be exterminated. Let us inquire? Does not each generation, morally stand before God, on their own responsibility in regard to sin? Certainly they do. How then, could the cumulative sins of one generation be passed to the next succeeding one, to their _moral_ injury or detriment? Impossible! But _the iniquity_ here spoken of, _could be so transmitted_; and at the time when God said it, he tells us that it required _four generations_ to make the iniquity full. What crime but the amalgamation of Adam's sons, the children of God, with the negro--beasts--called by Adam _men_, could require four generations to fill up their iniquity, but this crime of amalgamation? None. Then we _know the iniquity_, and what God then thought and yet thinks of it.