The Great Commentary of Cornelius A Lapide: The Gospel of St. John (Volume 4)

By Cornelius à Lapide

Cornelius a Lapide wrote ample commentaries on all the books of the Catholic Canon of Scripture, with the exception only of Job and the Psalms. Even before leaving Flanders, he edited the "Commentaries in omnes divi Pauli epistolas" (1614) and, "in Pentateuchum" (1616), both at Antwerp. The commentaries on the Greater and Lesser Prophets, on the Acts of the Apostles, the Canonical Epistles and the Apocalypse, Ecclesiasticus and the Proverbs, followed later on. The rest were edited only after his death; but all of them have been several times re-edited, both separately and collectively. Of the Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul he himself was permitted to see at least eleven editions. They explain not only the literal, but also the allegorical, tropological, and anagogical sense of the sacred text, and furnish a large number of quotations from the Fathers and the later interpreters of Holy Writ during the Middle Ages. Like most of his predecessors and contemporaries, a Lapide intends to serve not only the historical and scientific study of the Bible, but, even more, the purposes of pious meditation, and especially of pulpit exposition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477499342
• ISBN13: 9781477499344
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.0"