Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 24:16
Understand it thus, if the one be free from the guilt of the other’s sin, and except in those cases where the sovereign Lord of life and death, before whom none is innocent, hath commanded it, as Deuteronomy 13:0; Joshua 7:24. For this law is given to men, not to God; and though God do visit the father’s sins upon the children, Exodus 20:0, yet he will not suffer men to do so. For his own sin, understand only, and not for any other man’s sin. read more
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:6-16
XXIV. 6 f ., 10– 13, which stood perhaps originally together, belong to the many humanitarian laws of D ( Deuteronomy 15:12-Job : *). Corn is still ground in the home in Palestine; this is done by the rotation of an upper on a lower round stone ( cf. the British quern used in Scotland in 1880 according to E. B. Tylor ( Academy, vol. xviii. (1880) p. 204). Deuteronomy 24:7. Exodus 21:16 (JE). Here the law is narrower. In CH (§ 14) it is only the nobleman who may not be stolen ( Deuteronomy... read more