Ladvocat, Jean Baptist
Ladvocat, Jean Baptist
a noted French theologian and author, was born at Vancoulcurs in the early part of the 17th century, and was educated first at Ponta-Mouson, afterwards in Paris at the Sorbonne, where he subsequently became a professor. In 1751 he was appointed to the chair, founded at his suggestion in the Sorbonne by the duke of Orleans, for the interpretation of the Old- Testament Scriptures according to the Hebrew text. He died in 1765. Ladvocat wrote Dictionnaire Geographique portatif: Dictionm.. Historique portatif des grands honemles (2 vols. 8vo: this is an abridgment of Moreri, and is full of errors). He also wrote a Hebrew Grammar for the use of his pupils. Tractctfus de Conciliis in Genere; and Lettre dans laquellle il examine si les Textes originaux de l’Ecriture sont corrumpus et si la Vulgate leur est preferable. Ladvocat was, as an expositor of Scripture, a zealous disciple of Houbigant. He was also a correspondent of Dr. Kennicott, whose great work he zealously promoted, and he collated many MSS. for him in the Royal Library at Paris. Hook, Eccles. Biography, 6:506.
Lady is the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of the following terms in the original: (gebe’reth, fern. of a , a nighty man), applied to Babylon as the mistress of nations (Isa 47:5; Isa 47:7; elsewhere a “mistress,” as opposed to a maid-servant, Gen 16:4; Gen 16:8-9; 2Ki 5:3; Pro 30:23; Psa 123:2, Isa 24:2); (saruta’, fem. of , noble; the same as the name given to Sarai), a noble female (Jdg 5:29; Est 1:18; elsewhere a ” princess,” spec. the king’s wives of noble birth, 1Ki 11:13, different from concubines, comp. Son 6:8; “queen,” Isa 49:23; ” princess” among provinces, Lam 1:1); (fem. of , lord or master), mnistress, occurs only as an epithet of a Christian female (2Jn 1:1; 2Jn 1:5), either as an honorable title of regard, or as a fem. proper name CYRI SEE CYRI . (q.v.).