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Song 3:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Song 3:8 · Douay-Rheims
“All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man’s sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“skilled in warfare the war of Torah, and similarly, the priests who surround it, who camp around the Tabernacle, skilled in the order of their service. each one with his sword his weapons. These are the Masorah and the mnemonics, by which they preserve the correct version [of the Oral Law] and the masorah (the traditional spelling and reading of the Scriptures), lest it be forgotten. because of fear at night lest they forget it, and troubles will befall them, and so Scripture says (Ps. 2:12): “Arm yourselves with the grain [of Torah] lest He become angry and you perish on the way.””
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.