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Tob 1:20

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 1:20 · Douay-Rheims
“He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the naked, and was careful to bury the dead, and they that were slain.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“Slain, by order or connivance of Sennacherib. (Menochius) — Tobias buried the dead, out of charity, and the belief of a future resurrection. Hence arises the respect for tombs and the relics of the saints. (Calmet) — The pagans imagined that the souls could not rest till their bodies were interred. (Homer, Virgil vii., &c.) (Calmet)”
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.