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Exod 36:13

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 36:13 · Douay-Rheims
“Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Since the number fifty designates true rest in the Holy Spirit, and a ring seems to have neither beginning nor end, and gold is the most precious of metals, excelling all others in its brightness, what is expressed in the fifty golden rings except the perpetual brightness and bright perpetuity of the highest repose? And the rings grip the loops of the curtains in such a way that one tabernacle might be made out of them all when the glory of the heavenly kingdom graciously pours itself into the pure minds of the faithful, so that with the glue of such healing inspiration the church is made perfect out of the two peoples, or perhaps we should say out of all Christ's elect.”
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.