The interpretation timeline

Jdt 8:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 8:8 · Douay-Rheims

“And she was greatly renowned among all, because she feared the Lord very much, neither was there any one that spoke an ill word of her.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Her. “The reputation of chastity in women is tender, and, like a beautiful flower, presently withers at the least blast, and perishes; particularly when they are at an age prone to vice, and destitute of the authority of a husband, whose shadow is the safeguard to a wife.” (St. Jerome ad Salvinam.) — The Scripture could not give Judith a greater character. (Calmet) — How few can obtain it at present, though their virtue may be most pure, detraction is so keen! (Haydock)”

Source

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.