The interpretation timeline

Tob 1:14

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 1:14 · Douay-Rheims
“And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty to do whatever he had a mind.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“And he. Greek, “I was his marketter,” (Haydock) to provide provisions for the palace. “He set me over all he had, till the day of his death.” (Munster.) — But this Hebrew author has probably exaggerated the matter, to make Tobias appear as great as he could. These editions add no more, continuing, ( 15 ) “And I went into Media, and I deposited with Gabael, or Gabelus,” &c.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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