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Prov 5:6

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 5:6 · Douay-Rheims
“They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Her ways are unstable, etc. The ways of heretical deception are unstable, because some deny Christ to be God, others to be man; some deny he took flesh, others a soul; some that he was born of a virgin; some that the Holy Spirit, others that the Father is God, some prohibit confessing pardon to the repentant. And this pestilence spreads itself into such countless paths, that they cannot wholly be traced. But Catholic truth is not unstable and untraceable, because it is one and the same, known to all, throughout the world, to the faithful.”
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.