The interpretation timeline

Jdt 12:3

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 12:3 · Douay-Rheims
“And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast brought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee?”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
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.