The interpretation timeline

Prov 2:2

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 2:2 · Douay-Rheims
“That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“That your ear may listen to wisdom. For he is proven not to listen to wisdom with his ear, who, receiving the words of God only through the hearing of the body, does not retain them in memory to perform them. Therefore, if you receive God's commandments with a fixed love for learning and keeping them, first hold to the path of humility...”
Source
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Incline your heart to understand prudence. To incline is indeed to humble the heart to understand prudence and to cleanse the heart, to make it worthy to receive the mysteries of truth. Therefore, the same Wisdom, speaking to the Father, says: You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them to little children (Matt. XI; Luke X); that is, you have hidden them from the proud, and revealed them to the humble.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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