The interpretation timeline

Neh 6:13

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Jewish · 1 Reformed · 1 Catholic

Neh 6:13 · Douay-Rheims
“For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“Because he was hired he told me these things. in order that I fear in order that I fear them, to do this to enter the Temple and sin. so that they should have this for a scandal in order that they should have this as a scandal to reproach me with this sin.”
666 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin,.... By distrusting the power and providence of God to protect him, and by going into such a part of the temple, which he, being no priest, had no right to go into: and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me; as a rebel and traitor against the king, which had been reported of him, and which would be strengthened by such a step.”
Source
1849
A.D.
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.