The interpretation timeline

Jer 10:3

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jer 10:3 · Douay-Rheims

“For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

420

A.D.

Jerome Patristic

c. A.D. 347–420

“(v. 3.) Because it was cut down from the forest, the work of a craftsman with an axe. Description of the idols that the nations worship. He said that he cut down the wood from the forest. Therefore, the material of idols is cheap and perishable: the work of a craftsman's hands. Since the craftsman is mortal, the things he makes are also mortal.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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