The interpretation timeline

Prov 16:30

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 16:30 · Douay-Rheims
“He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth: evil to pass.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“He who thinks evil with astonished eyes, etc. It is more grievous to accomplish evil than to do it. Not only does he accomplish evil who acts perversely and harmfully with the members of his body, but also he who with fixed intention plans to commit it. For the proud, indignant, are accustomed to bite their lips, and to have astonished eyes, and not to see the present, who for some time silently ponder with diligent mind. Hence it can be inferred that thinking evil with astonished eyes says of him who thus seeks to commit the evils that he does not see the retribution of evil deeds that follows in the future.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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