Jean Baptist Ladvocat
Jean Baptist Ladvocat [1]
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: גְּבֶרֶת (Gebe'Reth, fern. of A גְּביר , A Nighty Man), applied to Babylon as the mistress of nations ( Isaiah 47:5; Isaiah 47:7; elsewhere a "mistress," as opposed to a maid-servant, Genesis 16:4; Genesis 16:8-9; 2 Kings 5:3; Proverbs 30:23; Psalms 123:2, Isaiah 24:2); שָׂרָה (Saruta', fem. of שִׂר , Noble; the same as the name given to Sarai), a noble female ( Judges 5:29; Esther 1:18; elsewhere a " princess," spec. the king's wives of noble birth, 1 Kings 11:13, different from concubines, comp. Song of Solomon 6:8; "queen," Isaiah 49:23; " princess" among provinces, Lamentations 1:1); Κυρία (fem. of Κύριος , lord or master), mnistress, occurs only as an epithet of a Christian female ( 2 John 1:1; 2 John 1:5), either as an honorable title of regard, or as a fem. proper name CYRI (See Cyri) . (q.v.).
