The interpretation timeline

Jdt 13:10

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 13:10 · Douay-Rheims
“And she struck twice upon his neck, and out off his head, and took off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless body.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Canopy, to convince all that it was the head of Holofernes. (Menochius) — Body, on the ground; (chap. xiv. 14.) perhaps to cut off the head more easily, (Calmet) and that it might appear more ghastly (Haydock) at the first entrance. (Tirinus)”
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.