George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Play, lasciviously, (Menochius) or dance. (Hugo.) (Exodus xxxii. 1.)”
The interpretation timeline
Tob 3:17
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Tob 3:17 · Douay-Rheims
“Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.”
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.