Biblical origins?

[sagehen]

gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG writes:

>  So many modern idioms have
>  biblical and most cases Hebrew origins -- ''sour grapes,''
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 Jim Landau  says:

>Isn't "sour grapes" from Aesop's Fables?
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Bernard W. Kane replies:

>Ref: "sour grapes" quote: Nope, Brother Barrett got it right:

>The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on
>edge.
        Jeremiah 31:29 (AV )
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But the *sense* in which we use the expression "sour grapes" is clearly
that given by Aesop's fable:  when we can't have what we sought, we say
"sour grapes."  That is, we wouldn't really have wanted them anyway.
A. Murie