Jean de La Haye
(
Paris
, 20 March 1593 ? Paris, 15 October 1661) was a French
Franciscan
preacher and Biblical scholar.
Life
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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
Louis XIII
.
Works
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De la Haye is the author or editor of some forty folio volumes, besides several unpublished manuscripts.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
, and the writings of
Francis of Assisi
and
Anthony of Padua
, 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).
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The text of the
Vulgate
forms the basis of the two. In the former the author quotes verbatim, after every chapter, the commentaries of
Gagnaeus
,
Estius
,
Manuel de Sa
,
Menochius
, 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
.
The methods followed by the author have been praised; yet it has been observed that the
prolegomena
and his own interpretations of the text are lacking in judgment.
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Notes
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- ^
John Sandys-Wunsch,
What Have They Done to the Bible?: A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation
(2005), p. 133.
References
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- Luke Wadding
, Scriptores (Rome, 1908), s. v.
- Sbaralea
, Supplementum (Rome,1806), s. v.
- Jungmann in Kirchenlexikon, s.v. Lahaye
- Jeiler, ibid., s.v. Haye
- Apolinaire in
Fulcran Vigouroux
,
Dictionnaire de la Bible
, s.v.
- Hugo von Hurter
, Nomenclator.
External links
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "
Jean de La Haye
".
Catholic Encyclopedia
. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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