The interpretation timeline

Tob 2:21

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 2:21 · Douay-Rheims
“And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Theft. He was the master of the family, and knew that there was no money in the house, so that he was not guilty of rash judgment, (Menochius) though his wife might naturally be offended.”
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.