George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Fear. Astonished (Menochius) at the instability of human things, and admiring how God had rescued him from the threatened danger.”
The interpretation timeline
Jdt 13:29
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Jdt 13:29 · Douay-Rheims
“Then Achior seeing the head of Holofernes, being seized with a great fear he fell on his face upon the earth, and his soul swooned away.”
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.