Cornelius a Lapide

Commentary on Proverbs: Preliminaries

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Commentaries on Sacred Scripture by the Reverend Father Cornelius a Lapide, of the Society of Jesus, formerly Professor of Sacred Scripture at Louvain, afterwards at Rome. Carefully revised and illustrated with notes by Augustin Crampon, Priest of the Diocese of Amiens.

New Edition, carefully purged of the errors which had crept into the previous one.

Volume Five: On the Proverbs of Solomon, Part I

Paris. Published by Louis Vives, Bookseller and Publisher, 13 Rue Delambre, 13. 1891.

Imprimatur and Approbation

Mutius Vitelleschi, Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

Since three theologians of our Society, to whom the task was entrusted, have reviewed the Commentaries on the Book of Proverbs of Solomon by Father Cornelius a Lapide of our Society, and have approved them as fit for publication, we grant permission for them to be committed to print, if it shall so seem good to those to whom it pertains. In witness whereof we have given these letters, signed by our hand and sealed with our seal. Rome, the 23rd day of May, in the year 1633.

Mutius Vitelleschi. Place of the seal.

Let it be printed. Brother Nicolaus Riccardus, Master of the Sacred Palace.

Approbation of the Censor

I judge that the Commentaries of the very Reverend Father Cornelius a Lapide, Theologian of the Society of Jesus, on the Proverbs of Solomon, will be most useful to the Christian commonwealth: for in them there shines such a wealth of maxims and holy Fathers, and such an extraordinary variety of subjects, that they may be deemed worthy of so great a man, so great industry, and so great genius. It is to be wished that they be worn in the hands of all theologians and jurists, both of those who govern and of those who obey. Moreover, they will furnish not a few aids to those who labor in the sacred arena of the salvation of souls in preaching. Done at Antwerp, on the 12th day of January, in the year 1635.

Egbert Spitholdius, Licentiate of Sacred Theology, Canon and Pastor of Antwerp, and Censor of Books.