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Prov 22:26

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 22:26 · Douay-Rheims
“Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Do not be with those who bind their hands, etc. Do not be with those who, though free and keeping themselves available to themselves, bind themselves in the care of the salvation of the wicked, promising to render an account to the Lord for their souls. If he for whom you stood surety does not have good works to make you free and secure of your surety, what good is it to you to be judged for his soul on the day of judgment and to lose the habit of righteousness with which you seemed to be clothed? Hence also the Lord: The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few (Matt. IX).”
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.