WE thought ourselves obliged farther to distinguish the Concordances of this sort from those preceding, because they make as it were a quite different Class, and are contrived after another manner; the Latin especially are of great Use: For which reason we think it necessary to describe the principal Editions of them: For there is no End of their Number.
The Gothick Editions are much less perfect than those which have been since published; not only because the Verses are not marked in them, the Chapters only are distinguished, and the Beginning, Middle, and End noted with the Letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, but because likewise they are the least correct, and the undeclinable Particles are to be found in them separately only, and at the End.
Concordantiæ majores, Lugduni, in 4to. Gryphii, 1540, in fol. Basil. 1543.
Magnæ Concordantiæ à Francisco Arola recognitæ, in 4to. Lugduni apud Gryphium, 1551.
Concordantiæ utriusque Testamenti, studio Rob. Stephani, in fol. Paris. 1555.
Concordantiæ utriusque Testamenti, per Joan. Benedict. Paris. 1562. fol.
Concordantiarum sanctæ Scripturæ oeconomia Methodica, à Georgio Bulloco. Antwerp. Plantini, 1572. in fol.
Concordantiæ Bibliorum Plantini, in 8vo. ann. 1581. in 4to. 1585, 1599.
Concordantiæ Bibl. in 4to. Lugd. apud Juntas, 1586.
Concordantiæ Bibl. maximæ fol. Francofurti, apud Wechelios, 1600.
Concordantiæ Bibliorum cum Annotationibus Francisci Lucæ Brugensis, fol. Antwerp. 1606. In 4to. Ibid. Venetiis, 1612. Lugduni 1615. Parisiis, Dionysii de la Noue, 1635, 1638.
Eædem recognitæ ab Huberto Phalesio, printed in fol. at Antwerp, in 1642. for Morete, in 4to. at Lyons, 1649, 1652. in 4to at Paris, 1656. at Cologn, in 8vo. Majori at Lyons 1687, 1700. Phalesius was a Benedictine of Afflinghem.
Concordantiæ utriusque Testamenti à Petro de Besse. Paris. 1611. in fol.
Concordantiæ Sacrorum Bibl. majores, per Gaspar. de Zamora, fol. Romæ, Zanneti, 1627.
Other Concordances, by George Siberbaur, at Vienna in Austria, 1700, in 4to. We have no Edition of them in any other Place.
The Concordances in Quarto and Octavo, are in general preferable to others, because they are more useful, and more manageable.
Those of Bullocus and Zamora are fairest, and most sought after.
In these every thing relating to any Subject may be found immediately; but the Largeness of them makes them troublesome and inconvenient.
There are besides, Moral Concordances of Scripture, for the use of Preachers, and those whose Office it is to make Exhortations.
Sylvæ Allegoriarum Hieronyomi Lauret, Benedictini, printed at Venice 1572, in 2 Vols. at Paris, 1583 in fol. and at Cologn, 1701. in fol. Possevin, in his Bibliotheca Selecta, compares this Work with that of Pagninus, which, as he says, is of the same kind. In it he relates what St. Charles Borromeo thought of it. This is in the 2d Book, Chap. 46. p. 81.
Sacra Scriptura in locos communes digesta, by F. de Balinghem. This is a Distribution of the Passages of Scripture into Common Places, for the use of Preachers; with Subjects taken from the Fathers. It was printed at Doway in 1631. at Lyons 1711. in fol. the last Edition. There is mention made of him in the Literary News of 1705, p. 3.
Anthony de Balinghem was a Fleming, a Native of St. Omers, born in 1571, became a Jesuit in 1588, and died in 1630, upon the 24th of January. His Work is useful, and has been much in vogue.
Concordantiæ Bibliorum Morales & Historicæ, Antverpiæ, 1625. in 4to. by Peter Eulard. He was of Artois, born in 1564, and died 1636, at Hall in Haynaut, after having been reputed a celebrated Missionary Jesuit.
Concordantiæ Bibliorum Morales, edente Lucâ Wadingo, at Cologn, 1647, in 4to. the second Edition.
Matthew Gravelin wrote a Concordance of the Bible in French, which is at the End of the Geneva Bibles, and was printed separately at Lyons, 1545 in 4to, and at Geneva, 1564, in fol. He was a French Calvinist, and flourished about 1535.
There has been one made likewise in German, Flemish, and other Languages, besides French, as we may see in F. Le Long, and Lipenius’s Bibliotheca Theologica, tom. 2. p. 384, 388. particularly as to what relates to the ancient and modern Latin Concordances.
Before we conclude this Article, it will be of some use to enquire who was the first Author of this sort of Works. Some attribute them to Hugo de Saint Cher, others to Hugo de Saint Victor. It will be necessary to enquire what Sixtus of Siena says of this Matter, in the fourth Book of his Bibliotheca Sancta, and F. Le Long, in his Bibliotheca Sacra, tom. 1. p. 456. in fol.