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Cornelius a Lapide was a Belgian Jesuit priest and renowned biblical scholar of the 16th and 17th centuries. This monumental commentary on the book of Ecclesiasticus (also known as Sirach) is a masterpiece of exegesis, drawing on the church fathers, rabbinic literature, and...