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Jdt 15:11

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 15:11 · Douay-Rheims

“For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart has been strengthened, because thou hast loved chastity, and after thy husband hast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath strengthened thee, and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Chastity, &c. This is not in Syriac, &c., and though, generally speaking, celibacy was not esteemed honourable among the Jews, yet chastity was so much the more admired, as it was more uncommon. A widow was deserving of praise for not lightly entering upon a second marriage. (Calmet) — Those who abstain from it, were respected, like virgins, by the Romans. (Val. Maxim. ii. 1.)”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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