Quotes:Lapide, Cornelius Cornelii à

Zirkoff, Boris

Lapide, Cornelius Cornelii à (Cornelis Cornelissen van den Steen). Flemish Jesuit and exegete; b. at Bocholt, Dec. 18, 1567; d. at Rome, March 12, 1637. Studied at Jesuit colleges, entered the Soc. of Jesus, 1592, and was ordained priest, 1595. Became prof, of Holy Scriptures, and later of Hebrew, at Louvain. Later sent to Rome where he spent the later part of life completing his celebrated Commentaries which deal with the historical and scientific study of the Bible, and the allegorical sense of the text. He was a seriously pious and zealous priest; his works are highly esteemed by both Catholics and Protestants.

Works: Commentarius in ... . Pauli epistolas, Antwerp, 1614.— Comm, in Pentateuchum, Antwerp, 1616, 1697.—Les trésors de Cernelius à Lapide: extraits de ses commentaires de l’écriture sainte, etc., by the abbé Barbier. Le Mans and Paris, 1856; latest ed., 1896. 4 vols.— The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide. Engl. tr. by Rev. Thomas N. Mossman. London, 1876.

H.P.B. refers to a French translation of his works by Élysée Pélagaud, which has so far remained untraceable.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 379

Lapide, Cornelius Cornelii à (1567–1637). Latin passage from one of his works, but actual source has not been identified. Vide Vol. VII, p. 379, for biogr. data about the author.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 462