The interpretation timeline

Sir 33:10

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Sir 33:10 · Douay-Rheims

“Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

367

A.D.

Hilary of Poitiers Patristic

c. A.D. 310–367

“So as not to refer these words to the lifeless mass of this earth, the totality of all of us who are generated from the earth in Adam, our progenitor, is designated in the plural, when it says, "Cry out to God in joy, all the earth." In fact, in this verse both our duty and the origin of all people are recalled at the same time.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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