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Your Sin, Your Responsibility
Commentators explain that this verse directly refutes the popular excuse of the time: "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." The people were blaming their ancestors for their suffering to avoid repenting for their own sins. God makes it clear that under His just rule, each person is ultimately accountable for their own iniquity. The one who eats the "sour grape" of sin is the one who will experience its bitter consequences.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 31:27–34
18th Century
Theologian
The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the awareness that their discipline has b…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 31:29–30
19th Century
Bishop
The fathers have eaten a sour grape ... —The proverb was one which, as we find from Ezekiel 18:2-3, had at that time come…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 31:29–30
19th Century
Preacher
In these days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die fo…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 31:29–30
16th Century
Theologian
Ezekiel shows that it was a complaint prevalent among the people that they suffered for the sins of their fathers. As Horace, a pagan and a despise…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 31:30
17th Century
Pastor
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity His own personal iniquity; and not a corporeal death only, but an eternal one…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 31:27–34
17th Century
Minister
The people of God shall become numerous and prosperous. In Hebrews 8:8-9, this passage is quoted as the sum of the covenant of grace made with beli…