The interpretation timeline

Ezek 16:54

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ezek 16:54 · Douay-Rheims
“That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, comforting them.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“It is plain that the just and good God of the law and the gospels is one and the same and that he does good with justice and punishes in kindness, since neither goodness without justice nor justice without goodness can describe the dignity of the divine nature.”
346
A.D.
Aphrahat the Persian Sage Patristic
c. A.D. 270–346
“Consider and observe, my hearer, that if God had given a hope to Sodom and to its fellows, he would not have overthrown them with fire and brimstone, the sign of the last day of the world, but would have delivered them over to one of the kingdoms to be chastised.”
420
A.D.
Jerome Patristic
c. A.D. 347–420
“To whom is there any doubt that among three types of sinners, certainly wicked people, the Gentile, the heretic, the ecclesiastic, the one who deserves considerable punishment is the one who is of greater rank?”
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.