...revelation of Life and immortality. So that Jeremiah, prophesying of this future Dispensation, says, — In those days, they shall say no more, The Fathers have eaten a sotore grape, and the Children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity...

...the father's disease should minister physic to the son. The Jews had such an ungracious proverb, " The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge," Jer. xxxi. 29. But the Lord answers them, " Plead with your mother," Hos. ii. 2 : for the husband...

...and to destroy, and to afflict ; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, -niili the LORD. e not counted of him strangers ? for he hath sold...children's : now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and...

...to destroy, and to afflict ; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. 29, In those days they shall say no more. The fathers have eaten a sour grnpe, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 30, But every one ihall die for his own iniquity :...

...punishing children for the crimes of their parents. Jeremiah,* speaking of this new dispensation, " In those days " they shall say no more, the fathers...eateth the sour grape " his teeth shall be set on edge. Behold the days come, saith " the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of " Israel...

...down, and to destroy, and to afflict: so will I watch over them to build, and to plant, saith the Lord. In those days they shall say no more, The fathers...eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and...

...uniformly denotes, to suffer death as the punishment of his sins. " But every one," says Jeremiah, " shall die for his own iniquity ; every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge."f To die for the sin of another, also, in no solitary instance which I can find denotes, to suffer...

...no more be said, The fathers have eaten sour grapes ; And the teeth of the children are blunted. 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity, Every man that eateth the sour grapes, His teeth shall be blunted. 31 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, When I will make a new...

...watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. 29 In those days they shall say no more, 0 The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. f Stt •« 14 Pi. 107:9. I v ;!.' i ».4. Mitt. 4:6. 11:2*. Luke 1:63. 2 Coc. 7* h Ps. \:- :....

...an emblem of the depopulation of a town or city. Isai. xvii. 6 ; xxiv. 13 ; Jer. vi. 9 ; xlix. 9. " The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge," Jer. xxxi. 29, is a proverbial expression, intimating that the fathers have sinned, and the...