The interpretation timeline

Jer 51:9

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jer 51:9 · Douay-Rheims

“We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

444

A.D.

Cyril of Alexandria Patristic

A.D. 376–444

“Jerusalem here is called Babylon, noted among the surrounding countries as the one who worked the hardest at imitating Babylon, and in no way lagging behind these other countries. Indeed, having arrived at almost a state of perfection in this regard, it tolerated no respect for the law or benefit from prophetic instruction.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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