Holy Scripture
Tobit 10:6
A church father on this verse
“Because of Tobias's delay due to the wedding, his parents were saddened that he did not return to them on the appointed day. And now, as Christ tarries among the Gentiles through faith in the Church gathered from the Gentiles, whoever among the Jews individually converts to faith in Him are greatly grieved; because th…”
Source: Septuagint
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6To whom Tobit said, Hold thy peace, take no care, for he is safe.
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4Then his wife said unto him, My son is dead, seeing he stayeth long; and she began to bewail him, and said,
5Now I care for nothing, my son, since I have let thee go, the light of mine eyes.
— Tobit 10:6 —
7But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat in the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,
8Let me go, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.