“What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?”
God commands that the proverb shall no longer be used in Israel, as He will challenge the doctrine of inevitable inherited punishment that sustains the exile community's despair. The prohibition of the proverb signals a fundamental reorientation of Israel's theological self-understanding away from corporate determinism toward individual moral responsibility. This divine prohibition becomes the foundation for the chapter's extended teaching on personal accountability.
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