“That falsity of evil was with that whole nation from its first origin, is plainly described in Moses in these words: They have corrupted themselves, they are not His children, it is their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation. . . . And Jehovah saw it, and abhorred because of indignation His sons and His daughters. And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their posterity shall be; for they are a generation of perversities, children in whom is no faith. . . . I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend Mine arrows upon them. They shall be wasted with hunger, and consumed with burning coals, and bitter destruction. . . . They are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them. . . . Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah;