Catholic Daily Mass Take up and read
Search
The interpretation timeline

Exod 5:22

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 5:22 · Douay-Rheims
“And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me?”
Patristic before A.D. 750
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“The words that Moses speaks to the Lord are not words of contumacy or indignation but of inquiry and prayer. This fact is clear from the way the Lord answered him. For he did not accuse him of infidelity but revealed what he was about to do.”
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.