Balthasar Cordier (Corderius) (b. at
Antwerp
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, 7 June 1592; d. at Rome, 24 June 1650) was a Belgian
Jesuit
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exegete and editor of
patristic
Patristics, also known as Patrology, is a branch of theological studies focused on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers, between the 1st to 8th centuries CE. Scholars analyze texts from both orthodox and heretical authors. Patristics em ...
works. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1612, and after teaching Greek, moral theology, and Sacred Scripture, devoted himself to translating and editing manuscripts of Greek ''
catenae'' and other works of the
Greek Fathers
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, for which he searched the libraries of Europe.
Works
He published the following:
* (Antwerp, 1628)
* (Antwerp, 1630)
* (Antwerp, 1630)
* (Vienna, 1630)
* (Antwerp, 1634)
* (Antwerp, 1643–46)
* (2 vols., of which, however, only the second is by him; Toulouse, 1646–47)
* (Antwerp, 1646)
* (Antwerp, 1648)
[The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia notes that Cordier was mistaken in his title, and the homilies in this work were in fact written by ]Origen
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.
* (Antwerp, 1646; reprinted in
Migne
Jacques Paul Migne (; 25 October 1800 – 24 October 1875) was a French priest who published inexpensive and widely distributed editions of theological works, encyclopedias, and the texts of the Church Fathers, with the goal of providing a ...
's XIII and XIV, and in Campon's edition of
Cornelius a Lapide
Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide (''né'' Cornelis Cornelissen van den Steen; 28 December 1567 – 12 March 1637) was a Flemish Catholic priest. He was a Jesuit and exegete of Sacred Scripture.
Life
Lapide was born in Bocholt, Belgium. He studied hu ...
), a commentary on the ''
Book of Job
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''
References
;Attribution
* The entry cites:
**
Sommervogel
Carlos Sommervogel (8 January 1834 – 4 March 1902) was a French Jesuit scholar. He was author of the monumental ''Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus'', which served as one of the major references for the editors of the Catholic Encyclo ...
, ''Biblioth. de la c. de J.'', II, 1438, s. v.;
**
Hugo von Hurter
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Friedric ...
, ''Nomenclator''.
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1592 births
1650 deaths
Jesuits from the Spanish Netherlands
17th-century translators