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Jdt 2:4

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 2:4 · Douay-Rheims
“And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the general of his armies,”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“Armies. Greek adds, “and the second after himself,” in the kingdom. (Menochius) — Casaubon suspects that this drunkard was the king mentioned in history, as having lost the kingdom of Cappadocia, by attempting to introduce the dissolute feasts of Bacchus. (Polyb. xxxii. ap. Athen. x. 11.) — He made his attack first upon this country, ver. 13.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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