The interpretation timeline

Prov 23:7

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 23:7 · Douay-Rheims
“Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Eat and drink, he will say to you, etc. He says, Learn securely and do what I teach, while he himself does not have certain faith in what he teaches, knowing he has invented from his heart what he would teach.”
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.