ORigen has explained this whole Book, excepting the last chapter, in sixteen Homilies, which we have among his Works. Besides these, we have his Scholia in the Latin Editions of Basil and Genebrardus. We find them likewise in the Latin Editions of St. Cyril of Alexandria, says F. le Long: And M. Huet has put out some Fragments of the second Homily in Greek and Latin in his first tome, p. 26.
Hesychius, or Isychius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, has written seven Books upon Leviticus, printed at Paris, 1581, in Greek; and in Latin at Basil, in 1527, in fol. F. Labbé assures us that it was written in Greek, and translated into Latin by another, who was almost a Barbarian. It is in Latin in the Bibliotheca Patrum, of the Lyons Edition, tom. 12. p. 52.
M. Du Pin in the seventeenth Century, p. 30. of the Edition in 8vo. commends the perspicuity of this Comment, containing the literal, allegorical, and moral sense in few words: The allegorical is touched upon very briefly. He likewise is of opinion that this Author wrote in Latin. He says he was Priest of Jerusalem, and was made Patriarch of it; which, however, is not certain: and the Age wherein he lived, is still less so.
Radulphus Flaviacensis in Levit. lib. 20. tom. 17. Bibl. Patr. p. 47. He was a Benedictine Monk, of the Abby of Flay (Flaviacum) otherwise of St. Germer, in the Diocess of Beauvais. He died about the Year 1157. His Work above-mentioned, was printed separately at Cologn, 1536. in fol. In it he explains the historical and spiritual meaning of the Scripture so learnedly, and with so much piety, that none of the other Commentators have said any thing that comes near it, in the opinion of Sixtus of Siena. Blondel speaks of him in his Treatise about Pope Joan.
See John Lorinus and Peter Serranus on the same Book. Lorinus’s Comment has been often printed: The best Edition is of Doway and Antwerp, 1620, fol. according to F. le Long. Serranus’s was printed Ibid. 1572, in fol. and 1609. He was of Cordova, Canon of Alcala; and died in 1578. We shall take notice elsewhere of his other Works. See his Title in the Index.
It is needless to repeat here St. Austin, Theodoret, Procopius, Bede, Rupert, Tostatus, Cajetan, Oleaster, and others, who have written on the whole Pentateuch. tions upon Leviticus, printed in the third Tome of his Works; of which we say something in the Article of sacred Chronology. See Judges.
John Benedict Carpzovius wrote only upon the 26th chapter, ver. 44. concerning the golden Ape of the Jews, at Lipsick, 1681, in 4to. See infrà.
Theodore Dassovius corrected the Scholia of the Criticks upon Leviticus, at Keil, in 4to. It is not said in what year.
Among the Jews, Aaron, the Son of Abraham, and Head of the Synagogue in Morocco, about 1609, put out, in particular, an old Comment under the Title of Aaron’s Sacrifice, at Venice, 1609, in fol. And farther, thirteen ways of explaining the Law; Ib. 1609, in folio.
Tobias, the Son of Eliezer, made a Collection of what was most useful in Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Ibid. 1546, in folio.