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Bibliotheca Sacra · Part IV

Article XXX. Protestant and Jewish Commentators upon the same Books.

Among the Protestants are Drusius, Amama, Peter Martyr, le Clerc, and Strigelius. Peter Martyr has two separate Comments: one printed at Zurich, in 1561, in fol. upon the two first Books; the other, Ibid. 1566, 1681. and at Heidelberg, 1599. He was of Florence, born in 1500. turned Canon Regular, acquired great Reputation by his Sermons; was made Abbot of Spoleto, and Principal of the College in Naples: but, upon forsaking the true Religion, he return’d to Zurich, where he set up the Standard against the Church; and died in 1562, after having twice married. He had a great Facility in conceiving the most difficult Things, a happy Memory, and a passionate love of Study.

Victorinus Strigelius with his Comment join’d a Chronology of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel, from Saul to the Babylonish Captivity; printed at Lipsick, in 1569 and 1583, in 8vo. and at Newstadt,

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