The interpretation timeline

Jer 10:4

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jer 10:4 · Douay-Rheims

“He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

420

A.D.

Jerome Patristic

c. A.D. 347–420

“(v. 4.) Decorated with silver and gold, fastened with nails and hammers, so that it would not be dissolved (or moved). He decorated it with silver and gold, to deceive the simple-minded with the splendor of both materials. This error has also passed to us, so that we consider wealth as a religion. He fastened it with nails and hammers, so that it would not be dissolved or moved. The power of these idols, which cannot stand on their own, unless they are fastened together with keys and hammers!”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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