Background
Prado was born at Baeza in Spain.
Prado was born at Baeza in Spain.
His magnum opus was the Tomus Primus in Ezechiel (fol pp 360. Rome, 1596). After sixteen years spent on this tome he died in Rome, where he was seeking illustrations for lieutenant He had reached the twenty-sixth chapter.
Of these the second is in two parts: I. Explanationum Ezechielis prophetæ, pars prima, in tredecim capita sequentia (fol pp 104.
Rome, 1604); World War II De postrema Ezechielis prophetæ visione (fol pp 655. Rome, 1605). This second part of the second volume goes into a detailed archæological study of the Temple of Jerusalem.
The third volume of this commentary on Ezekiel is entitled Appartus urbis ac templi Hierosolymitani (folio, pp xvi, 603. Rome, 1604). There are two parts to the volume, and both are the joint work of Prado and Villalpando.
Commentaries on Isaiah, Zachary, Micah, and the Epistle to the Hebrews, as well as a book on biblical chronology, are among the manuscripts left by Prado, several of which are in the National Library of Madrid.
The volumes published by Villalpando were dedicated to Philip II of Spain, at whose request and cost the work begun by Prado was brought to a successful completion. These three volumes include a thorough and scientific study of Jewish coins, weights, and measures. And a reconstruction of the Temple and the City of Jerusalem from the very few data at hand.
Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman found the work of Prado to be "still the greatest repertory to which every modern scholiast must recur, in explaining the difficulties of the book".
The younger Rosenmüller calls these volumes "a work replete with varied erudition, and most useful to the study of antiquity". Among those whom Prado inspired with his thoroughness and enthusiasm in the study of the Bible were his pupils John Pineda and Luis de Alcazar.