The interpretation timeline

Prov 12:27

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 12:27 · Douay-Rheims

“The deceitful man shall not find gain: but the substance of a just man shall be precious gold.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

735

A.D.

Bede Patristic

A.D. 673–735

“The fraudulent one will not gain profit, etc. For money acquired by fraud adds more harm to the soul than profit to the chest. And he who knows how to dispense his own substance for the Lord, will receive celestial gifts as a reward for the earthly ones.”

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.