The interpretation timeline

Prov 28:17

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 28:17 · Douay-Rheims
“A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“"A man who slanders blood," etc. Whether the land of the field or the land of the body, whoever cultivates it shall be satisfied; one with grain, the other with virtues. Whoever despises both shall be filled with poverty.”
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.