The interpretation timeline

Ezek 16:61

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ezek 16:61 · Douay-Rheims
“And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed: when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“After receiving the price of my sins and being re-established, and the covenant made with me, then do I understand my evil deeds, and I am confounded, and within I punish myself.”
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“Let us pray with all our heart that God would grant us to fight for truth to the very end of our mind and body.”
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.