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Exod 19:3

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 19:3 · Douay-Rheims
“And Moses went up to God: and the Lord called unto him from the mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:”
Patristic before A.D. 750
389
A.D.
Gregory of Nazianzus Patristic
A.D. 329–390
“Now when I go up eagerly into the mount—or, to use a truer expression, when I both eagerly long and at the same time am afraid (the one through my hope and the other through my weakness), to enter within the cloud and hold converse with God, for so God commands: If any be an Aaron, let him go up with me, and let him stand near, being ready, if it must be so, to remain outside the cloud.”
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.