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Sir 17:15

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Sir 17:15 · Douay-Rheims
“And Israel was made the manifest portion of God.”
Medieval c. 750 – 1100
856
A.D.
Rabanus Maurus Medieval
c. A.D. 780–856
“The ways of human beings are their desires and their actions, which in any case do not escape God's knowledge, since "everything is naked and exposed before his eyes." This is why the psalmist says, "The Lord knows a person's thoughts: they are but a breath." But he has especially known the way of those whom he approves. Conversely, it is said that he does not know the ways of those whose actions he condemns. Thus it is written, "The Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked ends in ruin."”
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.