The interpretation timeline

Jdt 2:13

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 2:13 · Douay-Rheims
“And he took by assault the renowned city of Melothus, and pillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who were over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land of Cellon.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Melothus, or Melita, built by Semiramis, (Pliny, [Natural History?] vi. 3.) in the same country. — Tharsis, or Cilicia, peopled by the son of Javan. — Ishmahel, on the Euphrates, east of the Desert Arabia.”
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.