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Prov 20:28

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 20:28 · Douay-Rheims
“Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1274
A.D.
Bonaventure Medieval
c. A.D. 1221–1274
“For the perfection of prelacy, two things are necessarily required, namely zeal for justice and the affection of mercy: for mercy and truth preserve the king. According to these two, the governance of prelacy in the Church militant ought to be ordered.”
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.