The interpretation timeline

Exod 2:15

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 2:15 · Douay-Rheims
“And Pharao heard of this word and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
397
A.D.
Ambrose of Milan Patristic
A.D. 339–397
“Thus did Moses flee from the face of Pharaoh, so that the royal palace would not defile him or royal power ensnare him. Indeed, he valued reproach for Christ as more precious than the riches of Egypt.”
397
A.D.
Ambrose of Milan Patristic
A.D. 339–397
“Moses went out from Egypt and was made a prophet and sent back to the people that he might free their souls from the land of affliction.”
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.