The interpretation timeline

Tob 5:11

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 5:11 · Douay-Rheims

“So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.”

Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“He saluted. Greek, “they saluted each other,” (Haydock) — The rest till ver. 16, is omitted also in Syriac and Fagius. But the Hebrew of Munster nearly agrees with the Vulgate. (Calmet)”

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.