The interpretation timeline

Exod 36:30

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 36:30 · Douay-Rheims
“So there were in all eight boards and they had sixteen sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“Sometimes, however, under one figure of either an act or an utterance, two terms may have one meaning. Thus the boards which were fitted together into the construction of the ark signify both the faithful and the eight souls who were saved in the same ark. Similarly, in the Gospel, in the parable of the sheepfold, Christ himself is both the shepherd and the door.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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