George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Man. The Jews married young: but the time was not fixed. (Calmet) — After. Greek, “Tobias.” They always style the father Tobit. (Haydock)”
The interpretation timeline
Tob 1:9
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Tob 1:9 · Douay-Rheims
“But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her, whom he called after his own name,”
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
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.