The interpretation timeline
2 Maccabees 7:16 Douay-Rheims

Said: Whereas thou hast power among men, though thou art corruptible, thou dost what thou wilt: but think not that our nation is forsaken by God.

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Power. Nothing could be more free than this answer, which greatly resembles that of Christ, John xix. 11. (Calmet)”
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.