ORIGEN has explain’d the seven first OJohn Paschius has discoursed of the City of Selah: His Performance is in the Philological Dissertations, tom. 1. He is different from Cornelius Paschius.
Christopher Henry Ritmeirus has an Inquiry concerning the City of Kirjath- Sepher, that is to say, of the Belles Lettres, upon the 15th chapter, ver. 15. at Helmstad, 1711, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, Professor of the Greek Tongue, in the beginning of the 18th Century.
J. Georgii Abicht, Disputatio de Cultris Saxeis ad Josue 5. Regiomonti. ann. 1713, in 4to. This Work is not extremely laboured; many Things might be added to it.
Gerard Outhove made a Dissertation upon Rabab, which is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 3. p. 438, 469. There are one and twenty Articles in it. chapters of Judges in nine Homilies, which end with Gideon’s Victory over the Midianites, &c. We shall not repeat here what we have said elsewhere of his Method.
St. Austin, Theodoret, and Bede, have likewise proposed Questions upon the several Events of this Book.
Hugh de S. Victor has written some short Notes, with this Title, Annotationes elucidatoriæ in Librum Judicum. His Interpretation is historical and literal, as well as moral.
Tostatus, Cajetan, Magalian. Cornelius à Lapide, Christoph. de la Vega, Serrarius, Arias Montanus, & Lucas Burgensis, have written upon Judges; each according to his own Method.
Tostatus and Serrarius propose and examine several Questions, relating to the historical Part; the rest inquire into the literal Meaning of the Text. Serrarius’s Comment was printed at Mentz, 1609, in fol.
Arias Montanus, his Comment is intitled, De varia Rep. printed at Antwerp, 1592, in 4to. We shall take notice here that he was of Seville in Spain; understood the Oriental Languages; and died in 1598.
Cosmas Magalianus put out only some Illustrations upon the eight first chapters, at Lyons, 1626, in fol. See above. With these he has join’d moral Notes.
Christopher de Vega’s Comment, in three Volumes, fol. at Lyons, 1663, 1671, is literal and moral. He was born in the Kingdom of Navarre; turned Jesuit, and died in 1672. He pass’d for a very prudent Man among those of his Society.
We may add John Freyre, of Lisbon in Portugal. He was a Jesuit, and died in 1620. His Comment is only upon the seven first chapters; at Madrid, 1642, in 4to. The second Edition.
Didacus Celada’s literal and moral Comment is only upon Deborah; at Lyons, 1675, fol. the second Edition. He was a Spaniard of Toledo, a Jesuit; and died in 1661.