Tobit 6:1

Verse 1. Dog. Greek and Hebrew specify this circumstance, (Calmet. 5:22) but not here. Those who attack the authority of this book, infer that such a trifle would not be noticed by the Holy Spirit. Calmet. 11:9. Yet Homer mentions the fawning of the dog upon Ulysses, after he had been 20 years from home; and the gravest historians record instances of the fidelity of dogs. Calmet.—Night, or stage, mansione, ( Bible.) at a caravansera, or house where travellers might stop all night, and sometimes, though seldom, might be supplied with necessaries. Herodotus (verse 52.) mentions several in the kingdom of Persia.