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Tob 3:6

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 3:6 · Douay-Rheims
“And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“Peace. Greek, “that I may be dissolved, and return to the earth; (literally, become earth) because it is more advantageous for me to die than to live, since I have heard false reproaches, and am much grieved. Command that I may be freed from this necessity, to go to my eternal place.” (Haydock)”
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.