“Filii autem adulterorum in inconsummatione erunt, et ab iniquo thoro semen exterminabitur.”
“As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.”
“But children of adulterers shall not come to maturity, And the seed of an unlawful bed shall vanish away.”
Perfection. Literally, “shall be in consummation,” or wholly destroyed. (Haydock) — They shall not come to age, or Septuagint, “initiated.” The pagans excluded the base-born from their mysteries, as the Church does from holy orders; and experience shews, that the fruits of adultery are often miserable, (Calmet) and while they imitate their parents, they can have no hope, ver. 18.