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Prov 2:13

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 2:13 · Douay-Rheims
“Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Who leave the straight path, etc. Beautifully he has opposed dark ways to the straight path, because indeed the journey of right action is performed in light and leads to the joys of the supreme light. As the Lord says: Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his deeds may not be exposed (John III). And such a one meets his end in outer darkness.”
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.