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Prov 23:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 23:8 · Douay-Rheims
“The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“The food you have eaten you will vomit, etc. The perverse thoughts you had learned from heretics, you must either abandon by correction through repentance, or after death be compelled to suffer punishment for them, and lose the words of confession, by which, while they preached, you thought you should humbly favor 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.