Origen
Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“Virtue makes me to have Christ as my brother, so that I may be both good and well-mannered.”
The interpretation timeline
Ezek 16:46
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Ezek 16:46 · Douay-Rheims
“And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.”
Patristic
before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
254
A.D.
Origen
Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“What are these two sisters of Jerusalem the sinner? Schism and division of the people created Samaria.”
254
A.D.
Origen
Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“This is to despise Zion and to trust in the mountain of Samaria. For if we ecclesiastics sin, heretics are certainly not strangers to us in the perversion of their teaching.”
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.