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Sir 6:30

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Sir 6:30 · Douay-Rheims
“Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm foundation, and her chain a robe of glory:”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1274
A.D.
Bonaventure Medieval
c. A.D. 1221–1274
“Hence in Ecclesiasticus: 'Put your foot into her fetters and your neck into her chains. And her shackles shall be to you a protection of strength and a foundation of virtue, and her chains a robe of glory. For the beauty of life is in her, and her bonds are a binding of salvation.' I say that religious life has both purgative and preparatory medicine, because it tempers itself according to the capacity of those who receive it. Hence Augustine says: 'Let food and clothing be distributed to each of you by your superior, not equally to all, because you are not all equally well, but rather to each one as he shall have need.'”
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.