The interpretation timeline

Esth 13:4

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Esth 13:4 · Douay-Rheims
“Told me that there was a people scattered through the whole world, which used new laws, and acted against the customs of all nations, despised the commandments of kings, and violated by their opposition the concord of all nations.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“A people. Greek, “a certain perverse people, mixed with every tribe through,” &c. — New. Greek, “opposite to those of every nation, which always casteth aside the edicts of the kings, so that we cannot extend to them that upright and blameless dominion which we exercise over you.””
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.