The interpretation timeline

Jer 49:14

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jer 49:14 · Douay-Rheims
“I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let us rise up to battle.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
457
A.D.
Theodoret of Cyrus Patristic
c. A.D. 393–457
“He used the phrase "he sent messengers to the nations" to mean "command." It is also likely that by divine command ministering angels stirred up the enemy. Remember that the divine David also says, "He sent forth on them the wrath of his anger; anger, wrath and distress, a dispatch by means of wicked angels." He calls them "wicked," not as such by nature but as communicating punishment as a benefit. We, too, are in the habit of calling the calamities that befall us evil. Likewise an angel wiped out the firstborn of the Egyptians. In the same way, other calamities were sent against Israel when David took a census of the people. There are many other such examples you could find in the divine Scripture.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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