The interpretation timeline

Tob 1:16

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 1:16 · Douay-Rheims
“And when he was come to Rages a city of the Medes, and had ten talents of silver of that with which he had been honoured by the king:”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Rages means “rupture,” by frequent earthquakes, and was (Menochius; Calmet) the residence of the Parthian kings, in spring, (Athen. xii. 2.) in the mountain, separating their country from Media. — Honoured for his salary. (Calmet)”
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.