The interpretation timeline

Jer 51:63

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jer 51:63 · Douay-Rheims
“And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Euphrates:”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1871
A.D.
1871
“bind a stone, &c.-- (Rev 18:21). So the Phoceans in leaving their country, when about to found Marseilles, threw lead into the sea, binding themselves not to return till the lead should swim.”
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.