The interpretation timeline

Prov 5:2

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 5:2 · Douay-Rheims

“That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

735

A.D.

Bede Patristic

A.D. 673–735

“That you may guard your thoughts, etc. Thoughts, by which you rightly believe; lips, by which you profess the faith itself in simple words, and usual, as well as ecclesiastical ones. But, according to the letter: He who adheres to a harlot defiles even his lips, either by kissing or speaking foul things.”

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.