Jean de La Haye (

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, 20 March 1593 – Paris, 15 October 1661) was a French

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preacher and Biblical scholar.

Life

He passed his boyhood in Spain and received the Franciscan habit in the province of St. Gabriel, of the Alcantarine Reform. He taught philosophy and theology, and distinguished himself as pulpit orator. Being called to France in 1620, he was assigned important offices both in the order and at the Court of

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Works

De la Haye is the author or editor of some forty folio volumes, besides several unpublished manuscripts. He edited the works of

Bernardine of Siena Bernardino of Siena, OFM (8 September 138020 May 1444), also known as Bernardine, was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his " bon ...

, and the writings of

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and

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, but his project of bringing out all important works by Franciscan authors in a ''Bibliotheca Ordinis Minorum'' was not realized. Designed principally for the use of preachers were his commentaries: *"In Genesim, sive Arbor vitae concionatorum", 4 vols.; *"In Exodum, vel Concionatorum virga, percutiens peccatores", 3 vols.; *"In Apocalypsim", 3 vols. Two major works were the "Biblia Magna", 5 vols. (Paris, 1643) and the "Biblia Maxima", 19 vols. (Paris 1660).John Sandys-Wunsch, ''What Have They Done to the Bible?: A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation'' (2005), p. 133. The text of the

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forms the basis of the two. In the former the author quotes verbatim, after every chapter, the commentaries of Gagnaeus,

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Manuel de Sá Manuel de Sá (b. at Vila do Conde, Province Entre-Minho-e-Douro, 1530; d. at Arona, Italy, 30 December 1596) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest, theologian and exegete. History He distinguished himself as a student at the University of Coimbra, an ...

Menochius Giovanni Stefano Menochio, - , was an Italian Jesuit biblical scholar. Life Menochio was born at Padua, and entered the Society of Jesus on 25 May 1594. After the usual years of training and teaching the classics, he became professor of sacre ...

, and Tirinus, S.J.; whereas in the latter he appends to each extract #the various readings of the versions, #a paragraph in which the harmony of these readings and the literal meaning of the text are briefly discussed, and #annotations drawn from the commentators above cited, but headed, in this case, by Nicolaus Lyranus, O.F.M. The methods followed by the author have been praised; yet it has been observed that the

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and his own interpretations of the text are lacking in judgment.

Notes

References

Luke Wadding Luke Wadding, O.F.M. (16 October 158818 November 1657), was an Irish Franciscan friar and historian. Life Early life Wadding was born on 16 October 1588 in Waterford to Walter Wadding of Waterford, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Anastasia ...

, Scriptores (Rome, 1908), s. v. *

Sbaralea Giovanni or Gian Giacinto Sbaraglia (1687–1764), otherwise Joannes Hyacinthus Sbaralea, was a historian of the Franciscan Order , image = FrancescoCoA PioM.svg , image_size = 200px , caption = A cross, Ch ...

, Supplementum (Rome,1806), s. v. *Jungmann in Kirchenlexikon, s.v. Lahaye *Jeiler, ibid., s.v. Haye *Apolinaire in

Fulcran Vigouroux Fulcran Grégoire Vigouroux (13 February 1837 – 21 February 1915), was a French Catholic priest and scholar, biblical theologian, apologist, and the first secretary of the Pontificial Commission (1903–1912). Vigouroux defended the historicity of ...

, ''Dictionnaire de la Bible'', s.v. *

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, Nomenclator.

External links

''Catholic Encyclopedia'' article
{{DEFAULTSORT:La Haye, Jean De 1593 births 1661 deaths French Friars Minor French biblical scholars