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Prov 20:27

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 20:27 · Douay-Rheims
“The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“The lamp of the Lord is the spirit of man, etc. The illumination of the divine breath, when it has come into the mind of man, illuminating it to itself, shows it was bearing perverse thoughts before the coming of the Holy Spirit, and it did not know how to weigh them.”
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.