Bede
Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“But the tongue of the wise is health. Because they both reach life by performing the good they promise, and in preaching they demonstrate to others what is to be followed.”
The interpretation timeline
Prov 12:18
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Prov 12:18 · Douay-Rheims
“There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.”
Patristic
before A.D. 750
735
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.