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Tob 4:18

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 4:18 · Douay-Rheims
“Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“Burial, or sepulchre. See Baruch vi. 26.; Ecclesiasticus vii. 37., and xxx. 18. The Jews followed this custom, which was common to the pagans, but from very different motives. The latter supposed that the souls fed on such meats. The Jews, and afterwards Christians, did it to feed the indigent, that they might pray for the deceased. These feasts were sometimes abused, and on that account forbidden by St. Ambrose, to whose authority St. Monica submitted. (St. Augustine, Conf. vi. 3.) See Constitutions Apostolic viii. 24. (Calmet) — Just man, who may be supposed to have died in God’s peace. (Haydock) — It is of no service to pray and give alms for the damned. — Wicked, so as to encourage their evil conduct. (Menochius) — Works of mercy extend to the dead. (Worthington)”
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.