George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“But. This version is not in Greek or Hebrew. (Calmet) — True zeal is not repressed by fear, as charity expels it, 1 John iv. (Worthington)”
The interpretation timeline
Tob 2:9
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Tob 2:9 · Douay-Rheims
“But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.”
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.