The interpretation timeline

Jdt 11:11

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 11:11 · Douay-Rheims

“And they have a design even to kill their cattle, and to drink the blood of them.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Drink. Greek, “and all that God had forbidden them to eat by his laws, (Haydock) without making any distinction between the clean and unclean. (Grotius) — Blood was prohibited even before the law, Genesis ix. 4., and Leviticus xvii. 14. (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.