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Tobit 14:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 14:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Tobit’s Prophecy
Chapter 14[a]
1 So ended Tobit’s words of praise. He died peacefully at the age of one hundred and twelve and was buried with much honor in Nineveh. 2 He was sixty-two years old when he lost his eyesight, and after he was cured he lived a happy life, gave alms, and continually blessed God and proclaimed his greatness.
3 Prior to his death, he summoned his son Tobiah and Tobiah’s seven sons, and issued these instructions:
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- Tobit 14:1 The end of the Book takes on an apocalyptic tone. Assyria, the persecutor of the chosen people, had already fallen some centuries previously. The author presents the event as a prophecy in the mouth of Tobit whom he makes a contemporary of this time past. In the destruction of empires, he sees a pledge of the power of God capable of restoring his people. Moreover, he also sees the future coming of new times: all the nations will be converted and the Israelites reunited in their homeland, the Holy Land definitively renewed. This is why Tobit counsels his descendants to follow the example of Ahiqar, the celebrated wise man of the East.
