The interpretation timeline

Tob 13:2

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 13:2 · Douay-Rheims
“For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell, and bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Hell; death. (Menochius) — Out of hell there is no redemption or return. (Haydock) (1 Kings ii. 6.)”
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.