The interpretation timeline

Tob 3:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 3:8 · Douay-Rheims
“Because she had been given to seven husbands, and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Asmodeus, “the fire of Media.” Hebrew, “king of the devils,” of that country, exciting people to lust, (Menochius; Serarius, q. 8.) and destroying them. (Worthington) — Unto her. Greek and Hebrew intimate, when they first entered the nuptial chamber, chap. vi. 14.”
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.