The interpretation timeline

Neh 9:21

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Reformed · 1 Methodist · 1 Catholic

Neh 9:21 · Douay-Rheims
“Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing,.... As not for food, so neither for raiment, as follows: their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not; of which see Deu 8:4.”
1832
A.D.
Adam Clarke Methodist
1762–1832
“Their clothes waxed not old - See the note on Deu 8:4.”
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Worn. So as to be sore, (Haydock) or without shoes. (Menochius) See Deuteronomy viii. 4. (Calmet) — Protestants, “their feet swelled not.””
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.