Cornelius à Lapide — Biblical Commentary

Cornelius à Lapide SJ · 1567–1637

Cornelius à Lapide (1567–1637) was a Flemish Jesuit who devoted his life to producing a commentary on almost every book of the Bible — a labour of over forty years. His work is one of the most encyclopedic achievements of Catholic exegesis: learned, practical, and saturated with the Fathers, the Scholastics, and the spiritual tradition. Drawing on Jerome, Augustine, Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, and hundreds of others, à Lapide weaves together the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses with extraordinary care. His commentary remains a standard reference in traditional Catholic biblical study.

Note on Job: The commentary on Job presented here is by Balthasar Corderius SJ (1592–1650), a fellow Jesuit whose learned catena on Job draws on the Greek Fathers and Gregory's Moralia in Job. It is included here as a companion to the Lapide series.