The interpretation timeline

Ezek 9:6

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ezek 9:6 · Douay-Rheims
“Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who mere before the house.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
420
A.D.
Jerome Patristic
c. A.D. 347–420
“This means priests who went to the temple and adored idols, or those who were called holy among the people because of their status as priests. It is time for judgment to begin on them from the house of God.”
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“So there is a forehead of the inner self. That is where those people were marked, to save them from being wiped out. Because even if they did not put right the sins that were committed among them, at least they were pained by them, and by their very pain they set themselves apart; while set apart for God, they were mixed together in the eyes of people. They are marked with a sign in secret; they escape harm in public. The destroyer is sent next and is told, "Go, destroy, do not spare young, old, male, female; but do not go near those who have the sign on their foreheads." What a sure guarantee has been given you, my brothers and sisters, you among this people who are groaning and grieving over the wicked deeds committed in your midst and are not committing them!”
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.