The interpretation timeline

Tob 2:10

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 2:10 · Douay-Rheims
“Now it happened one day, that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Now. Greek, “And that very night I was.” — He came. Greek, “I lay myself down, being defiled, beside the wall of the court, and my face was uncovered.” (Haydock) — The touching the dead rendered a person unclean, Numbers xix. 11.”
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.