The interpretation timeline

Prov 2:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 2:8 · Douay-Rheims
“Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Keeping the paths of justice, etc. The ways of the saints, the general precepts of God; the paths of righteousness, the stricter rules of the heavenly life, which are accessible only to the perfect, it says; wisdom keeps both as to help the upright and the simple in whatever grade of virtues they stand.”
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.