The interpretation timeline

Jer 10:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jer 10:8 · Douay-Rheims

“They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

420

A.D.

Jerome Patristic

c. A.D. 347–420

“(Verse 8.) Both fools and wise men will be proved, their teaching is empty as a wooden idol. Both the wise and the foolish exist together. Their education, depending on the quality of their intelligence, is either cheap and compared to wood, or similar to silver because of the elegance of their speech.”

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.