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Prov 5:12

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 5:12 · Douay-Rheims
“Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Why did I hate instruction? etc. He calls the instruction of ecclesiastical faith; the reproaches by which heretics are rebuked, why they withdrew from the Church, he refers to them. It is evident concerning fornicators.”
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.