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Prov 7:19

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 7:19 · Douay-Rheims
“For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“There is no husband in the house, he has gone, etc. He says, Christ is not bodily in the Church. For having risen from the dead, He ascended to heaven and left us the ministry of governing the Church, namely His house.”
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.