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Prov 25:26

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 25:26 · Douay-Rheims
“A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot, and a corrupted spring.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“"A muddied spring, and a corrupt fountain," etc. The mouth and tongue of the just are the spring and fountain of life, which meditates wisdom and speaks judgment. And if it happens that this is overcome by the devil and brought to a fall, then rightly it is called a muddied spring trodden down by the adversary, and a corrupt fountain. For it often happens that those who shone with greater knowledge, in the end, wishing to be wiser than is allowed to human frailty, fall into the pit of folly. Hence it is added...”
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.