The interpretation timeline

Prov 7:1

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 7:1 · Douay-Rheims
“My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“My son, keep my words, etc. And this section is the same as previously explained more fully under the person of the harlot.”
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.