The interpretation timeline

Tob 8:14

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 8:14 · Douay-Rheims
“Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may bury him before it be day.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Dead. Greek, “alive. But if not, that I may bury him, and no body may know,” The custom of burying too soon ought to be avoided, as many have thus been consigned to the tomb before they were really dead!”
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.