The interpretation timeline

Ezek 20:41

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ezek 20:41 · Douay-Rheims
“I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
220
A.D.
Tertullian Patristic
c. A.D. 150–220
“Consider yourselves as having been transferred from prison to what we may call a place of safety. Darkness is there, but you are light; chains are there, but you are free before God. It breathes forth a foul smell, but you are an odor of sweetness.”
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.