The interpretation timeline

Tob 6:6

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 6:6 · Douay-Rheims
“And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Flesh. St. Paul uses the like expression, (1 Corinthians xv.) as well as Pliny, [Natural History?] ix. 15. (Worthington) — Took. Greek and Fagius, (Calmet) “eat, and both went on till they came near to Ecbatana.” (Haydock) — From Ninive to Rages would be 10 or 12 days’ journey. (Calmet)”
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.