The interpretation timeline

Jdt 2:12

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 2:12 · Douay-Rheims
“And when he had passed through the borders of the Assyrians, he came to the great mountains of Ange, which are on the left of Cilicia: and he went up to all their castles, and took all the strong places.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“When. Greek, “and they proceeded from Ninive, three days’ journey, to the plain of Bektileth,” or Bagdania, in Cappadocia, between Mount Argee and Taurus. Strabo (xii.) assures us that Argee is the highest mountain in the country, from which the two seas of Cilicia and the Euxine may be seen. (Calmet)”
Modern · 1953 →

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