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Prov 16:14

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 16:14 · Douay-Rheims
“The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“The king's indignation is messengers of death. The messengers of death are the angels of Satan, that is, heretics and vain philosophers; indeed, all who announce those words to their neighbors, by which they are taken away to eternal death. The more they serve the author of death, the more they gravely offend the giver of life; yet the path of repentance is not closed to such. For it is added...”
Source
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“And a wise man will appease him. For he can appease God by repenting, whom he happened to offend by speaking foolishly.”
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.