The interpretation timeline

Jdt 10:5

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 10:5 · Douay-Rheims
“And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to carry, and a vessel of oil, and parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and cheese, and went out.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Bottle; made of leather, (Calmet) used for carrying wine. (Pollox.) (Menochius) — Corn. It was eaten either steeped in water or mixed with oil. — Cheese. So the Syriac reads. Greek, “pure loaves.” (Calmet) — Why she took her provisions with her, she explains, chap. xii. 2. (Menochius)”
Modern · 1953 →

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