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Tob 2:18

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 2:18 · Douay-Rheims
“For we are the children of the saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“Saints; Abraham, &c. Thus Mathathias encouraged his children; (1 Machabees ii. 50.) and no argument can be more forcible. Dice puer virtutem ex me, verumque laborem Sis memor, et te animo repetentem exempla tuorum Et pater Æneas et avunculus excitet Hector. —–Virgil, Æneid xii. — Life eternal. These grand truths were more developed, as the Messias was nearer at hand.”
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.