The interpretation timeline

Neh 6:4

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Neh 6:4 · Douay-Rheims
“And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort,.... Being very desirous of getting him into their hands, and therefore were very pressing and importunate: and I answered them after the same manner; every time as before, he being as much bent on finishing the work as they were to divert him from it.”
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.