The interpretation timeline

Tob 4:5

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 4:5 · Douay-Rheims
“And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her by me.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“By me. Greek adds, “in the same sepulchre,” like the patriarchs. Pope Leo decreed: statuimus unumquemque in sepulchro suorum majorum jacere.”
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.