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1649004150Antwerp: Iacobum Meursium 1649. New Editions. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. full pigskin embossed covers with impressed Jesuit insignia; ex libris St. Ignatius College Chicago; lacks the clasps numerals on spine tight. <br/><br/>Book 2 is 1650; Book 3 is 1649. Lapide wrote commentaries on all of the books of the Old Testament with the possible exception of two. "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 larg number of quotations from the Fathers and the later interpreters of Holy Writ during the Middle Ages. . Lapide intended 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. . His numerous editions show ho highly these works are estimated by Catholics. But Protestant voices have joined in the appreciation. G. H. Goetzius Leipzig 1699 wrote an academical dissertation . in which he praises the Jesuit author as THE MOST IMPORTANT OF CATHOLIC SCRIPTURAL WRITERS emphasis added - THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA." Iacobum Meursium hardcover