The interpretation timeline

Ps 103:23

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ps 103:23 · Douay-Rheims
“Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“What art thou doing, O man of God? thou, O Church of God? what art thou, O body of Christ, whose Head is in Heaven? what art thou doing, O man, His unity? "Man," he saith, "shall go forth to his work" (ver. 23). Let therefore this man work good works in the security of the peace of the Church, let him work unto the end. For sometime there will be a sort of general darkening, and a sort of assault will be made, but in the evening, that is, in the end of the world: but now the Church doth work in peace and tranquillity; for "man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour, unto the evening."”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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