The interpretation timeline

Judg 15:13

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Judg 15:13 · Douay-Rheims

“They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

397

A.D.

Ambrose of Milan Patristic

A.D. 339–397

“When they heard this, though three thousand men had come up, they swore to him that they would make no attempt on his life, only he must submit to be bound, in order that they might formally surrender him, and so keep clear of the crime of which they were accused.”

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.