Cornelius a Lapide

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Cornelius a Lapide

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Employer

Cornelius Cornelii à Lapide

Sacred Scripture.[1]

Life

Lapide was born in

Scherpenheuvel
(Montaigu).

In 1616, Lapide was called to Rome in the same capacity, where, on 3 November, he assumed the office that he held for many years thereafter. The latter years of his life, however, he apparently devoted himself exclusively to completing and correcting his commentaries. He died in Rome on 12 March 1637.

Lapide described himself in a prayer to the Prophets at the end of his commentary on the Book of Daniel: "For nearly thirty years I suffer with and for You [God] with gladness the continual martyrdom of religious life, the martyrdom of illness, the martyrdom of study and writing; obtain for me also, I beseech You, to crown all, the fourth martyrdom, of blood. For You I have spent my vital and animal spirits; I will spend my blood too."

Works

Cornelius a Lapide, Commentaria in quatuor prophetas maiores. Antwerpen: Nutius, Martinus (III), 1622.

Cornelius a Lapide wrote commentaries on all the books of the Catholic Canon of Scripture, i.e., including the

Epistles of Saint Paul
he lived to see at least eleven editions.

The complete series, with the Book of Job and the Psalms added by others, was published in

anagogical senses of the Sacred Scriptures and provide numerous quotations of the Church Fathers and mediaeval interpreters. Like most of his predecessors and contemporaries, a Lapide intended to serve the historical and scientific study of the Sacred Scriptures and, more so, pious meditation and especially homiletic exposition. An extract from the commentary on the Acts of the Apostles appeared in 1737 in Tyrnau under the title Effigies Sancti Pauli, sive idea vitae apostolicae. A large work in four volumes, Les trésors de Cornelius a Lapide: extraits de ses commentaires de l'écriture sainte à l'usage des prédicateurs, des communautés et des familles chrétiennes by Abbé Barbier was published in Le Mans and Paris in 1856, re-edited in Paris in 1859, 1872, 1876, 1885, and 1896; and translated into Italian by F. M. Faber and published in Parma
in 1869–70, in 10 volumes over 16 months.

G. H. Goetzius authored an academic dissertation, Exercitatio theologica de Cornelii a Lapide Commentariis in Sacram Scripturam (Leipzig, 1699), in which he praised a Lapide as the most important Catholic scriptural commentator.

Thomas W. Mossman, an

Anglican
clergyman, translated some of the New Testament commentaries into English under the title The Great Commentary of Cornelius a Lapide (London, 1876):

  • The Gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John
  • St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians and the Galatians
  • St. John's 1st, 2nd and 3rd Epistles

A manuscript in the

Maronite
Yusuf ibn Girgis (beginning of the eighteenth century), who also purportedly translated the Commentary on the Epistles of Saint Paul.

Regarding Papal supremacy and the consequences of a Pope espousing heresy, he said:

For the Pope in the Church is more than a king in a kingdom: for this king receives power from his own republic, [while] the Pope truly does not receive his power from the Church, but immediately from God: therefore in no case is he able to be deposed by the Church, but only to be declared to have fallen out of the Pontificate. If (God forbid) he were to fall into public heresy, he would accordingly ipso facto cease to be pope, aye, [he would ipso facto cease to be] faithful and Christian. [2]


References

  1. ^ Kasteren, Johannes Peter Van (1908). "Cornelius Cornelii à Lapide" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ Cornelius Lapide, S.J. (d. 1637), Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram, page 410. (Parisiis, Ludovicus Vives, 1893)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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