The interpretation timeline

Num 33:35

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:35 · Douay-Rheims

“And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“Next they come to Gasiongaber [Ezion-geber], which means "the purposes of a man." If someone ceases to be a child in understanding, he arrives at the purposes of a man, just as Paul, who said, "When I became a man, I gave up childish ways."”

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.