The interpretation timeline

Judg 21:6

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Judg 21:6 · Douay-Rheims

“And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

397

A.D.

Ambrose of Milan Patristic

A.D. 339–397

“They had warred rightly against the authors of the crime because of the cost of the sin, but the people had turned unhappily against their own flesh and each was afflicted with civil war. The outpouring of tears moved their minds to compassion and stirred their feelings; the plan conceived in anger was gone.”

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.