The interpretation timeline

Jdt 8:15

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 8:15 · Douay-Rheims
“For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Man. Greek, “But do not you govern the designs of the Lord, our God, for God is not to be menaced like man, nor forced to give an account like the son of man.” (Haydock) (Numbers xxiii. 19.)”
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.