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Tob 4:1

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Tob 4:1 · Douay-Rheims

“Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he might die, he called to him Tobias his son,”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“When. Greek and Hebrew and the old Vulgate, (Calmet) “That very day Tobit remembered the money which he had deposited with Gabael….and said within himself, I begged for death; why do I not call Tobias, my son, that I may declare it to him before I die? And calling him, he said: Son, if I die, bury me, and despise not thy mother.” (Haydock) — He gives him fourteen instructions, in imitation of Moses and David, 3 Kings ii. (Worthington)”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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