The interpretation timeline
Wisdom 18:6 Douay-Rheims

For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage.

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Fathers. God had assured the patriarchs, that he would visit his people, and Moses had told them what would take place, during the night of their deliverance, Exodus iv. 22., and xi. 4. (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.