The interpretation timeline

Tob 5:5

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 5:5 · Douay-Rheims
“Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Beautiful; resplendent with celestial majesty. (Calmet) — Greek, “he found Raphael, who was an angel, and he knew it not, and said to him: Canst thou go with me to Rages, of Media, and art thou acquainted with the places?” (Haydock) — This angel prefigured Jesus Christ, who took indeed our human nature. (Ven. Bede) (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.