Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide (Cornelis Cornelissen van den Steen) Flemish Jesuit and exegete, born 1567 and died in Rome 1637. He studied humanities and philosophy at the colleges of Maestricht and Cologne, then theology, at the University of Douai, and afterwards for four years at Louvain; Cornelius a Lapide, well versed in Greek and Hebrew, wrote ample commentaries on all the books of the Catholic Canon of Scripture (with the exception of Job and Psalms) and which were praised both by catholics as well as protestants. 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. All these commentaries are on a very large scale. 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. Later edition of this commentary, first published 1645; Small stamp and name on first flyleaf; 2 names on title erased with ink; binding with some worming and soiling as expected; label chipped at edges; wormholes throughout touching words in the text; De Backer/Sommervogel, IV, 1511-26; Hurter I, p. 622; 3 copies in Central Dutch Catalogue (NCC); This edition not in Catalogue Collectif de France; Not in on-line catalogue of the Belgian National Library;