The interpretation timeline

Tob 1:7

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 1:7 · Douay-Rheims

“So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Strangers. See Deuteronomy xiv. 28., (Menochius) Leviticus xxvii. 30. (Calmet) — Greek, “And the third I gave to whom it belonged, as Debbora, my father’s mother, ordered me, as I was left an orphan by my father; ( 9 ) and when I was,” &c. (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.