The interpretation timeline

Jdt 1:11

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 1:11 · Douay-Rheims
“But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and rejected them without honour.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Refused. Greek adds, “and did not come to help him in the war, because they feared him not, (Haydock; supposing he would have enough to do with Arphaxad) as he was but like their equal, or as one man. (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.