The interpretation timeline
Sirach 39:13 Douay-Rheims

The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation to generation.

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Generation. With what care do we not preserve the Scriptures? &c.”
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.