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Jdt 10:18

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 10:18 · Douay-Rheims
“And his officers said to him: Who can despise the people of the Hebrews who have such beautiful women, that we should not think it worth our while for their sakes to fight against them?”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“That we. Greek, “For it is not expedient to leave one man of them alive, lest they should delude all the earth.” (Old Vulgate omits the negation.) “And all who slept near Holofernes, and all his servants, came out and introduced her into the tent;” (Haydock. which was divided into two apartments. Heraclides) “and Holofernes was reposing on a bed in the canopy, (or inner room) which,” &c. (Haydock) — The curtain was intended to keep off gnats. Mark Anthony imitated this delicacy. Interque signa (turpe!) militaria, Sol aspicit conopćum. (Horace, epod. ix.) (Calmet)”
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.