The interpretation timeline

Bar 4:8

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Bar 4:8 · Douay-Rheims
“For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“God. Literally, “Him.” Greek, “the Eternal.” (Haydock) — This is taken from Deuteronomy xxxii. 15. (Calmet) — Nursed you. The city is beautifully personified as a widow, ver. 12. (Haydock)”
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.