The interpretation timeline

Wis 16:19

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Wis 16:19 · Douay-Rheims

“And at another time the fire, above its own power, burned in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1274

A.D.

Bonaventure Medieval

c. A.D. 1221–1274

“And at a certain time, namely when the animals had been called back, in water beyond its power, its natural power, namely, because by a miracle, the fire blazed forth on every side, namely throughout the whole land of Egypt, so as to destroy the wicked nation of the land, that is, the Egyptians, who were an earthly nation, not a heavenly one; against which, First Corinthians fifteen: "As we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear the image of the heavenly."”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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