The interpretation timeline

Exod 32:14

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 32:14 · Douay-Rheims

“And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

430

A.D.

Augustine of Hippo Patristic

A.D. 354–430

“Though we sometimes hear the expression "God changed his mind" or even read in the figurative language of Scripture that "God repented," we interpret these sayings not in reference to the decisions determined on by almighty God but in reference to the expectations of man or to the order of natural causes.”

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.