The interpretation timeline

Exod 15:16

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 15:16 · Douay-Rheims

“Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become unmoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“God is asked that for a short while the Gentiles might be changed into stones—that is what the Greek word apolithōthētōsan really means—"until the Jewish people passes through." There is no doubt but that after they have passed through, the Gentiles will cease to be stone and will receive in place of their hard hearts a human and rational nature in Christ, to whom is glory and power for ages of ages. Amen.”

Source

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.