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Let us begin with a short reminder: Cornelius a Lapide [Van den Steen], (1567–1637) was a Flemish Jesuit who commented on Holy Scripture at the Roman College (Collegio romano) after 1616. He wrote a huge and very influential commentary on the whole Bible (minus the Book of Job and the Psalms).1 He had read every author, sacred and profane, and his thick volumes, reprinted in the 19th century, remained an unlimited font for Catholic exegetes and preachers.
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Cornelius a Lapide, Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram (Paris: Vives, 1866), 21 vols.
In his commentary of II Thess,2: “Roma sub finem mundi futura vocatur Babylon, meretrix magna sedens super Septem montes, ebria sanguine Sanctorum et martyrum Jesu.”
Thomas Malvenda, De Antichristo (Rome: 1604), I: 350. “eius sententias primus auctor uidetur fuisse Franciscus Ribeira in 14. Apoc. num. 24 & seq.”
Francisco de Ribera, In sacram beati Joannis Apostoli et Evangelistae Apocalypsin commentarii (Lyon, 1592). “Ad lectorem de horum commentariorum editione.” This edition contains important additions, noted in the margin “inaniculis et lineolis.”
Cornelius a Lapide op. cit., 353a.
Ibid.,352b.
Ibid.,353b.
Ibid.,347a.
Ibid.,351b.
Ibid.,346b.
Ibid.,353b.
II Esdras (1. 4, c. 5 § 54) and Cyprian to Demetrianus, § 3 (circa 252), texts quoted and studied in the chapter “The Decay of Nature” in Richard Foster Jones, Ancients and Moderns. A study of the Rise of the Scientific Movement in Seventeenth-Century England,2nd ed. (Gloucester, Mass: 1961), 22–40.
Ibid.,Jones quotes a text from 1580 (Francis Shakelton, A blazyng Starre) showing this alteration of the world due to old age.
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Armogathe, JR. (2001). Per Annos Mille: Cornelius a Lapide and the Interpretation of Revelation 20: 2–8. In: Kottman, K.A. (eds) Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture. Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 174. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2280-3_4
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