The interpretation timeline

Jdt 12:5

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 12:5 · Douay-Rheims

“And when she was going in, she desired that she might have liberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“And. Greek, “and she sent to Holofernes, saying: May my lord please to order that thy handmaid may go out to pray. And,” &c., ver. 6. (Haydock) — She had prepared him to grant this request before: but out of civility, and that he may have greater confidence in her, she asks again. The choice of a retired place for prayer is very commendable, but she made choice of the fields, that she might go out of the camp afterwards without being suspected. (Calmet)”

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Modern · 1953 →

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