The interpretation timeline

Ps 57:5

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ps 57:5 · Douay-Rheims

“Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1105

A.D.

Rashi Jewish

1040–1105

“They have venom They have venom to kill people, like the venom of a serpent. like a deaf cobra that closes its ear When the snake ages, it becomes deaf in one ear, and closes the other ear with dust so that it should not hear the incantation of the charmer, adjuring it not to cause injury.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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