BEde, Tostatus, Cajetan, Francis Feuardentius a Franciscan, Quinquarborius, Serrarius, Cornelius à Lapide, Gaspar Sanctius, Bonfrerius, Didacus Celada, have all written with approbation on this Book.
Francis Feuardentius printed his Comment separately at Paris, 1582, in 8vo. and afterwards at Antwerp, in 1585. He was born at Coutances in Normandy, 1541. turned Cordelier at Bayeux; and died in 1610. He is well known by the great number of Works published by him.
That of Gaspar Sanctius was printed at Lyons, in 1628, fol. with what he had composed upon Esdras. He was a Spaniard, a Jesuit; and died in 1628. of his Age 75. The great number of Comments written by him, ten in folio, and three in quarto, shews sufficiently that he was very laborious. He was born for Study; and never ceased either reading or writing.
Serrarius’s Comment is joined with that which he wrote on Judges. See above.
Joan. Merceri in Ruth, Interpretatio Syriaca, cum Scholiis, Paris, 1564, in 4to. Simon, in his critical History of the Old Testament, does not rank this Work among his best Comments.
Frederick Spanheim speaks of Booz in his Dubia Evangelica, Dub. 3. With him we may join Drusius, who wrote a Comment and Notes upon the same Book, together with a Treatise on Mandrakes; the whole printed at Amsterdam, 1632, in 4to. the second Edition.
Carpzovius, in Ruth Comment. printed at Lipsick, in 1703, in 4to. It is a literal, rabbinical, and biblical Comment. In it we see, first, the Hebrew Text, with a literal Version; the Targum, or a Chaldee Paraphrase, with the Version of it; the great and little Massora; the Comments of the Rabbins, Jarchi, Aben Ezra, Aben Meleck and Aben Dana, with Translations, and afterwards very large Notes by the Author upon the whole. This Work may be of some use to those who learn Hebrew, and serve as an Introduction to the reading of the Rabbins. It came out in 1671, in 4to. Carpzovius’s Nephew continued it, and put out the second Edition.
There are also Jews who have commented this Book. Two Eliezers; one firnamed Gremisa, a German of Worms, who lived in 1240. and has a Comment printed at Lublin, in what Year it is not said: the other originally of France, born at Troyes in Champagne, in the 16th Century. His allegorical and mystical Comment is of 1560, in 4to, in Hebrew. It is not said where it was printed.
As for Dissertations, John Clodius has made one upon the Custom among the old Hebrews of pulling off their Shoes when they contracted Marriage, chap. 4. ver. 7. printed at Wittemberg, 1672, in 4to. F. le Long takes notice of the Dissertations of one Antony Lancæus, which have no other Title besides that of Benjamin Lupus Rapax, seu Ruth; at Perouse, 1650, in 12mo. He is the only Person who speaks of him; and says, he was an Italian.