George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Nation. Be faithful, lest another take thy place. This Christians have done, Deuteronomy xxxii. 21. (Calmet)”
The interpretation timeline
Bar 4:3
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Bar 4:3 · Douay-Rheims
“Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation.”
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.