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Sour Grapes

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Announcements › Forums › Substance – March 11th, 2018 › Sour Grapes

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  • March 9, 2018 at 3:25 pm #6122
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    Jeremiah 31: 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

    I never understood this citation, and it always bothered me. But that’s because I never bothered to look it up and also didn’t have the understanding I have now from attending Plainfield.

    Jeremiah condemned the use of this proverb and “declared that the sinner is the artificer of his own ruin.” (Pulpit Commentary)

    “Men had found in it an explanation of their sufferings which relieved their consciences. They were suffering, they said, for the sins of their fathers, not for their own.” (Elliott’s Commentary)

    So, they blamed many of their problems on the sins of their fathers and used that as an excuse for repeating those sins, instead of repenting.

    Mary Baker Eddy explains it:
    211 : 19-23
    It should no longer be said in Israel that “the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” Sympathy with error should disappear. The transfer of the thoughts of one erring mind to another, Science renders impossible.

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