The interpretation timeline

Jdt 7:6

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 7:6 · Douay-Rheims
“Now Holofernes, in going round about, found that the fountains which supplied them with water, ran through an aqueduct without the city on the south side: and he commanded their aqueduct to he cut off.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“An aqueduct: the fountain must therefore have been on a higher ground than the city, though the latter was on an eminence. (Calmet) — Yet water may be forced to ascend by pipes. (Haydock)”
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.