The interpretation timeline

Jdt 14:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 14:8 · Douay-Rheims

“And the watchmen seeing this, ran to the tent of Holofernes.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Ran. Greek, “Sent to their officers. But they went to the leaders and captains of thousands, and to every chief among them, and they proceeded to the tent of Holofernes, and said to his chief steward: Awaken now our lord, for the slaves have been so bold as to come down to offer us battle for their utter ruin. The Bagoas,” &c., ver. 13. (Haydock)”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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