S1591. He is very short, and passes over the most difficult Places in a very cursory manner. He was of Suabia, born a Catholick, in 1524. but, going to Wittemberg, he there embraced the Opinions of Luther, and became a Calvinist: He died in 1569, was a Divine, and a Philosopher, and knew something of History.
Sebastian Schmid made a Comment separately upon the two Books of Samuel, printed at Strasburg in 2 vol. in 4to, and Annotations on the two Books of Kings, Ibid. 1697. He was a German, a Lutheran, Professor at Strasburg, and died in 1696.
We shall add farther Erasmus Sarcer, whose Comment appeared at Lipsick 1559, in 4to. He was of Anneburg in Saxony, a Lutheran Minister, and died in 1559, of his Age 59 or 63. He was grave in his Manners, and constant in his Friendships, an Enemy to Excesses, and a Lover of Simplicity and Labour, a good Orator, and persuaded easily.
Francis Lambert wrote a Comment upon the Books of Samuel and Kings, printed at Frankfort in 1539, and others which we shall mention hereafter. He was of Avignon, took to the Order of S. Francis; afterwards turn’d Lutheran, and died Professor at Marpurg in 1530. He wrote a Piece to vindicate his Apostasy, and other Works which are taken notice of in the 2 Tome of Du Pin’s Tables, p. 391.
Jerom Weller wrote upon the Books of Samuel and Kings separately, at Frankfort 1555, in 8vo, and at Nuremburg 1560, in fol. See his Title.
John William Steuch published the History of the People of Palestine, and of the Sidonians, for the better understanding the two Books of Samuel, at Zurich 1595, in fol. He was of Switzerland, a Calvinist, Professor at Zurich, and died in 1607.
What the Jewish Commentators have written upon the Books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, is comprized in what they have published in the historical Books. Isaac the Son of Samson wrote a particular Comment upon the two Books of Samuel, printed at Prague 1619, in fol. the second Edition. There are besides, Kimchi, Jarchi, and Levi Ben-Gersen, all Rabbins. EE first of all our Dissertation on the Gods of the Philistines, in our Comment on the first Book of Samuel, and in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 441.
Upon Goliath and the Philistines.
Matthæi Hosti monomachia Davidis & Goliath in Crit. Sacr. tom. viii. It contains sixteen Chapters. There are learned Remarks in it, and a great deal of Erudition in this small Treatise. The Author we have spoken of in the Article upon Noah’s Ark.
Robrensee wrote likewise on this Combat, at Wittemburg 1681, in 4to. See upon Judges.
George Alberic Aulner or Subner, a German Lutheran, has also written on the same Subject, at Altorf, 1702, in 4to. Selden, de Diis Syris, c. 2, 3, 6.
Joan. Nicolai Hardschmidt, de Anis Philistinorum, 1 Reg. 6. 5. This Author’s Dissertation concerning the Animals which caused the Death of the Philistines while they detain’d the Ark, was printed separately at Wittemburg 1685, in 4to, and in the first Tome of the Philological Dissertations.
John Christian Wolfius has discoursed of the Preparation for War made by the Philistines, upon ch. 13. ver. 5. This is a Dissertation which was printed. Ibid. 1711. The Author was a German Lutheran, born in 1683, and Professor of the oriental Languages at Hamburg.
Upon Samuel, Saul, David, and Absalom.
In the Memoirs of Trevoux for the Month of August 1721, there is an Explanation of the following Words in the first Book of Samuel, ch. 13. ver. 1. Filius unius anni erat Saul cum regnum cæpisset, duobus annis regnavit super Israel. This is a kind of Dissertation, wherein F. James Mary Ayroli attempts to find out the true meaning of this Passage in the original Hebrew Text. As this Passage is very difficult, it has been turned an hundred different ways. The new Commentator examines and confutes them all, and then explains his own Opinion.
Leonis Allatii, de Engastrimytho, in Mag. Criticis: Gregorii Nysseni Epistola de ventriloqua triloqua seu Pythonissa, in the first Tome of his Works, p. 867. Eustachii Antiocheni de Engastrimytho, Ed. Allatii.
Here we must add Origen’s Treatise on the Witch of Endor, published in Greek and Latin by Allatius, at Lions 1629, in 4to, with a Dissertation by him added thereunto, wherein he examines this Author’s Opinion. M. Huet has since printed it in his Edition of Origen, tom. I. and it has been inserted in Latin in the Bibliotheca Patrum at Lions, and in the Great Criticks, tom. viii. The Treatise of Eustathius of Antioch on the same Subject is likewise printed there; the same Allatius had before published it with the Hexaemeron attributed to him.
These two antient Authors are of a different Opinion; for the first has asserted, that the Witch of Endor, by the help of her Inchantments, did really produce Samuel both in Soul and Body: the second, on the contrary, that it was only his Shadow; and this is the most general opinion. This is Gregory of Nyssa’s in his Letter to Theodosius the Bishop. In it he enlarges much upon the Artifices made use of by the Devil to deceive Mankind.
Michael Rothardi Samuel Redivivus, & Saul sui ipsius Homicida. In magnis Criticis, tom. viii. p. 303. It was also printed at Frankfort 1615, in 8vo, and at Hanover 1624. There is a great deal of Erudition in this Work, and some useful Enquiries. Michael Rothard examines in it two things, 1°. Whether Samuel did really appear to the Witch of Endor. 2°. Whether Saul is damned. As to the first he holds the Negative, and for the latter the Affirmative. He was a German, Minister at Mulhausen, in the beginning of the seventeenth Century.
See our Dissertation on Samuel’s Appearance to Saul, before our Comment on 1 Sam. and in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 148.
Salom. Deylingii, Personati Samuelis Historia illustrata. T. 2. Observ. Sacr. c. 18.
John Ernest Gerard wrote likewise a Disputation on Samuel’s Spectre, at Jena, 1666, in 4to, enlarged Ibid. 1684. See upon Deuteronomy.
John Henry Heidegger made a Dissertation on the Witch of Endor, printed in the Thesaurus Dissert. Philol. tom. 1. See Exodus.
Ægidii Strauchii, Samuel personatus, at Dantsick 1681, in 4to. See above.
Daniel Arcularii, de Samuele à muliere Pythonissa excitato, in his Theological Disputations, tom. 1. p. 538. printed at Marpurg 1566, in 4to. Lastly, Godfrey Vogler has examined whether Samuel were really represented; at Frankfort, 1705, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran; a Doctor of Law in the beginning of the 18th Century. And Bernard Waldschmidt made a Treatise on the Witch of Endor, Ibid. 1660, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran; and died in 1665. Sal. Deylingii, Saul inter Prophetas, 1 Sam. 10. 5, 10. tom. 3. 661. c. 11.
Henry Kipping has an historical and theological Dissertation upon Saul’s being cured by Musick, in his Academical Excercitations. He was a German Lutheran of Lipsick, and Preacher to the Electoral Court of Saxony towards the end of the 17th Century.
John Buch put out a Dissertation upon this Prince, agitated with an evil Spirit, and cured with the Sound of David’s Harp; at Copenhagen, 1703, in 4to. He was a Danish Lutheran, and is, perhaps, still living.
John Adam Osiander treated of Saul’s Election to be King, at Tubing, 1667, in 4to. and Abraham Calovius’s Jus Regum, at Koningsburg, 1642, in 4to.
George Mæbius has treated of the terrible Judgments of God upon the Posterity of Saul; at Lipsick, 1679, in 4to. He was a Lutheran, and died in 1697.
Georg. Alb. Hamberger, de Jurejurando Davidis, 1 Sam. 25. 22. si reliquero mingentem ad parietem. This Disputation was printed at Jena, 1684, in 4to. and in the first Tome of the Philological Dissertations. He was a German Lutheran, and Professor at Jena towards the end of the 17th Century.
The Dissertation of Theodore Horn is in the same Thesaurus, Ibid. the Title of it is, De Desiderio Davidis, cum petiit aquam è Bethleem, 2 Sam. 23. 15, 16.
Godfrey Wegner has written upon the same Subject in his historical and philological Dissertations; at Lipsick, 1696, in 4to. See our Comment upon 1 Sam. 25. 22. and Bochart, de Animal. Sacr. l. 2. c. 56. p. 675, & seq.
Abarbanel, de Peccato Davidis numerantis Populum, ex versione Joan. Buxtorf; 2 Sam. This is in John Buxtorf’s Dissertations, printed at Basil, in 1662, in 4to. George Mæbius has another Treatise on the same Subject, at Lipsick, 1681, in 4to.
Joan. Ernesti Muller, de Davide ante arcam fœderis saltante, in Thes. Theol. Philol. It was printed also at Lipsick, in 4to, 1687. The Author was a German of Franconia, a Lutheran, and lived about the end of the 17th Century. See our Dissertation upon the Wealth which David left to Solomon; and our Comment upon 2 Sam. c. 14. p. 486.
Seb. Schmid, de fasciculo Viventium, 1 Sam. 25. 29. in Thes. Phil. This was printed separately in German, at Lunenburg, 1682, in 4to.
Thomas Reeves has treated in particular of Nabal’s Fault, with respect to David, at London, 1623, in 4to. See above.
Christopher Samuel Scharff put out David against Nabal, at Lipsick, 1701, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, in the beginning of the 18th Century.
John Benedict Carpzovii, & Henrici Opitii Dissertationes de Cherethis & Pelethis. Vide & Scacchi Myroth. tom. 3. c. 15. This Carpzovius, the Son, was a Lutheran; and died 1699. His Dissertation was printed at Lipsick, 1661, in 4to. and that of Henry Opitius, at Jena, 1684. the second Edition in 4to. He was a Lutheran of Altemberg, and died in 1712.
Samuel Bochart, de Absalom Capillis, t. 2. Geogr. Sacr. p. 889. Edit. Leid. 1707.
Le Pelletier of Roban, on the same Subject. See the Journal of Trevoux, 1702, August, Art. 1. p. 175. This is a Letter written in French, relating to the Weight of Absalom’s Hair; which gives him an opportunity to enlarge very much upon the Weights and Measures of the antient Hebrews, and even of the Romans. See above upon Noah’s Ark.
For our better understanding the Sense of this Passage in Scripture, and resolving a Question which has so much perplexed Interpreters, the Author produces the original Words of the Hebrew Text, the principal Translations of it that have been published, and the Circumstances which they include. He examines, afterwards, whether, when Absalom had his Hair cut, he had it all cut off, or so much only as incommoded him; whether it was the whole which weighed two hundred Shekels, or that only which was thus troublesom to him; lastly, what sort of Shekel we are to understand that to be, by which the Weight is here expressed.
Irenæus Poimander, or Poimenand, a Flemish Calvinist; who, in the beginning of the 17th Century, wrote upon the same Subject, in his own Language, at Dort, 1643, in 4to:
See likewise our Comment on the second Book of Samuel, ch. 14. p. 486. our Dissertation on the Riches left to Solomon by David, ibid. and the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 160.
Upon the Land of Ophir.
Gaspar Varrerius, de Ophira Regione Disputatio, Mag. Critic. Varrerius’s true Name is Barreiros. He himself calls his Work a Comment, which was printed at Coimbra, in 1561, in 8vo. afterwards at Antwerp, in 1600. at Rotterdam, in 1616. at Harderwick, in 1637. and lastly, in the Great Criticks, tom. 8. p. 363. of such Importance did it appear to be. He places this Region in the Indies, subject to the King of Portugal. This Performance cost him a great deal of pains, and reading. He was a Portugueze, Canon of Evora; and died in 1560. We do not find that he had been a Cardinal, as F. le Long says; but he was a Friend of Cardinal Sirlet’s, during his stay at Rome.
With the Work of Barreiros, there is join’d, in the Great Criticks, what Abraham Ortelius said of the Land of Ophir, in his Thesaurus Geographicus, tom. 8. p. 429.
Martin Lipenius’s Dissertation on the same Subject, was printed at Wittemburg, 1658, in 4to. To which he added Illustrations, Ibid. 1660. and 1682, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran of Hall, distinguished himself by his Wit in the University of Lubeck; and died in 1692. of his Age 62. He had a great deal of Probity, and was a Lover of Peace.
Matthias Frederick Beck join’d what he had said of Ophir and Tarshish, with what he wrote upon Eden at Jena, 1676, in 4to. He was Lutheran Minister of the Church of Augsburg; and died in 1701.
Upon Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and the Temple.
S. Hieronymi, de Judicio Salomonis, ad Rufin. tom. 2. p. 616. nov. Edit.
Ejusdem de Salomone & Achaz, ad Vitalem, tom. 2. p. 617. nov. Edit. Saint Jerom, in his Letter to Rufinus, explains the Difference between the two Women allegorically, by comparing them to the Church and the Synagogue. In his Letter to Vitalis, he examines whether Solomon and Ahaz might have had Children at 12 Years of Age.
It may be proper here to mention Balthasar Scheid, who has a Disputation upon the great number of Solomon’s Wives; at Strasburg, 1658, in 4to. He was Lutheran Professor of Greek and Hebrew, Ibid. He died in 1670.
Samuelis Coryli, de Regina Austri, in the Thesaur. Dissert. Philol. tom. 1. He was a German Lutheran, and may be still living.
Joan. Rendtorfii, de Salomonis æterna salute. This Author has composed other Works besides on Scripture, whereof Imbonati has given us a Catalogue in his Rabbinical Library, tom. 4. p. 417, 418. but he does not say that they have been printed. He informs us that he was of Hamborough, and a Lutheran; that he taught the Greek and Hebrew Languages; that having forsaken his own Country, he turned Catholick, and died in the Bosom of the Romish Church.
Philippi Bonæ spei Abb. de damnatione Salomonis. See our Dissertation upon Genesis. He was Abbot of the Præmonstratenses, in the Diocess of Cambray; and died there in the Year 1180, aged above 80, if it be true, that Saint Anselm, who died in 1117, was his Master.
Bacchiarii Epistola de recipiendis Lapsis, tom. 6. Biblioth. Patrum, Lugd. 1677. p. 1174.
Nicolai Serrarii de Pænitentia Salomonis; inter opuscula Serrarii, p. 8.
See our Dissertation upon Solomon’s Salvation, in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 178.
John Lewis Vivaldus treats of the same in his Opuscula; printed at Lyons, in 1548. He was of Piemont, a Dominican, and was made Bishop in 1519. Pineda says his Style is good enough for the Age wherein he lived; but that it is not now fit to be used.
Feu-ardent has treated likewise of Solomon’s Salvation. See too Tichonius, t. 6. Bibl. PP. p. 57. and Martin. Delrio, in Cantica Cantic. and Pineda, in Solomone prævio.
John Cousin, or Cognatus; see the Title of his Work, De prosperitate & exitio Salomonis; at Doway, 1599, in 8vo.
Dalecampii Vindiciæ Salomonis de lapsu, statuque ejus æterno; printed at London, in 1622. It is not said in what Form.
F. Alexander’s Dissertation is the third of the fifth Century, p. 162. In it he maintains, that the Salvation of this Prince is very uncertain.
Thomas Liebe has treated in particular of the Name and Wisdom of Solomon; printed at Dresden, 1699, in 12mo. Liebe was a German Lutheran, of Friburg; and died in 1704.
Josephus’s Description of the Temple of Jerusalem, Antiq. l. 8. c. 2. p. 259. & de Bello, l. 6. c. 5, seu 12. p. 915, &c. Item, Lightfoot; in the first Volume of his Works, p. 553.
Lewis Capellus’s, in the Great Criticks, and London Polyglot. Villalpandus’s, in Villalpandus, and the London Polyglot. Arias Montanus’s, in the Antwerp Polyglot.
Bede, and Richard de St. Victor, have likewise given Descriptions of the Temple. See what we have said of them in the Article of the Temples of the antient Jews.
Franc. Ribera, de Templo, l. 5. Lugd. & Antwerp, in 8vo.
We have put out a Dissertation upon the Original of Temples, in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 666.
To those who have written upon Solomon’s Temple, we may add Lewis Maillet, who has printed Figures of this Temple and the Palace, together with an Explanation in French; at Paris, 1695, in fol. He was of Troyes in Champagne, and was alive in 1704.
Eliezer, the Son of Jacob, wrote upon the Dimensions of the Temple, translated out of Hebrew into Latin by Constantine l’Empereur; at Leyden, 1630, in 4to.
Augustin Veget has treated of the brazen Pillars, in two Dissertations, at Wittemberg, 1695, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and Professor at Giessen.
Michael Christian Lewis, of Saxony, a Lutheran, who died in 1640, wrote two Disputations upon the Temple, at Jena, 1658, in 4to.
One Lawrence of Portugal, a Cordelier, who lived till 1640, has treated expressly of all the Expences in building the Temple; in Portugueze, at Lisbon, 1617, in 4to.
Upon Rehoboam and Jeroboam, Elijah and Elisha.
Ægidii Strauchii, de Reboami Regis Judæ vita, ad 3 Reg. 12. printed at Jena, 1696, 4to. We have already spoken of him. To this we may join F. Alexander’s Dissertation upon Idolatry, wherein the People of God were engaged by Jeroboam. It is the fifth of his 5th Century.
Salom. Deylingi, Dii Montium, 3 Reg. 20. 23. Obs. Sacr. c. 12.
Christian Robrenseé has four Disputations upon the Reign of Jeroboam; at Wittemberg, 1675, in 4to.
Joan. Frischmuth, de Eliæ Prophetæ nomine & prosapia, ad 3 Reg. 17. in Thes. Th. Philol. separately at Jena, 1689, in 4to. See upon Genesis.
Joan. Helv. Willemeri, de pallio Eliæ, 4 Reg. 18. in the same Thes. at Wittemberg, 1679, in 4to. To this he has added a curious Disputation concerning the Miracles of this Prophet, and his Letter to Joram. See upon Genesis.
David. Godefred. Schwertner Elias Corvarii convictor, ad 3 Reg. 17. 1, 16. Ibid. This Author was a German Lutheran.
S. Ambrosius, de Elia & jejunio, tom. 3. Oper. p. 505. nov. Edit.
Seb. Kirchmayer, de flammante curru Eliæ, 4 Reg. 2. 1. in the Thesaurus; and at Wittemberg, 1667, and 1676, in 4to. Joan. Frederic. Mayer, Elias corvorum convictor, Ibid. 1685, in 4to. With this he has joined something concerning the Idol set up in the Temple by Josiah; both in the Philological Dissertations, t. 1. See upon Judges.
We shall add Henry Gebhard, who has examined whether these Ravens were Men or Animals; at Gryphiswald, 1697, in 4to. See Ibid.
Samuel Desmaretz has a Treatise on Elijah’s Translation, in his select Disputations, Part 2. at Groninguen, 1663. See above. The Reader may consult John Buxtorf, the Son, upon this Matter; whose Book was printed at Basil, 1660, in 4to.
Joachim Zehner has written upon the same Subject; at Smalcald, 1599, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and died in 1612.
Andrew Kesler wrote likewise upon the same Subject, at Wittemberg, 1702, in 4to.
George Wend of Silesia, a Lutheran, has treated of Elijah’s Letters to Joram, at Thorn, 1703, in 4to.
In the Memoirs of Trevoux, there is an Explanation of ver. 9. ch. 2. of the second Book of Kings. The Passage is this: Elias dixit ad Eliseum, Postula quod vis, ut faciam tibi, antequam tollar à te. Dixitq; Eliseus: Obsecro te, ut fiat in me duplex spiritus tuus. Which some, not rightly apprehending, have translated thus: “ Eli- “ jah said unto Elisha, Ask of me what “ thou wilt, that I may obtain it for thee. “ Elisha answered him; I pray thee, that “ thy double Spirit (or a double Portion “ of thy Spirit) may rest upon me.” I say, that the Interpreters of Scripture seem not, in this Place, to have rightly understood, or well explain’d this Passage; for want of considering, as they ought to do, that the Word duplex, double, both in Latin and in French has two Significations. In the first it signifies worth twice as much as another; as double Pay, double Louis d’or: And thus we find it rendred in the Interpretations and Translations of it which have hitherto been published. In the second it signifies like, equal, and Copy of any thing; as will appear in the following Instances. In this sense we say that two Persons have, under their private Seal, made a double Act; meaning two like Acts, one whereof is the Duplicate or Copy of the other. A Bargain under Hand and Seal is generally made double; that is, two such like are made of it. The Duplicate of a Sentence is the Transcript of a like Sentence in any Act, or the Copy given to the Party. In Musick, double Measure is that which is brought in two equal, like Times. In the Game of Lansquenet, (if we may be allowed to take advantage of every thing) a Card is called double-like, which has already come up once or twice. In the last Signification, I say, the Verse above-mentioned should be explained and translated thus: Elisha answer’d him, I pray thee that thy Spirit may be double in me; or, I pray thee to obtain for me that my Spirit may be a Copy of thine; or, I pray thee to obtain for me that my Spirit may be like thine, may be equal to thine. If we follow this natural meaning of the Word, there will be no necessity to rack the Brain so much in endeavouring to put such a Construction upon it as may agree with the Humility and Piety of so holy a Disciple as Elisha.
Andr. Quenstedt, de petitione Naaman Syri, 4 Reg. 5. printed at Wittemberg, in 1678, 4to. and in the Thesaurus of Philological Dissertations.
Nicolai Serrarii, Naaman Syrus; inter opuscula Serrarii, p. 22.
See our Dissertation upon Naaman, and his Request to Elisha, in 4 Reg. and in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 105. See also Tostatus, Denis the Carthusian, our Dictionary, and Bochart’s Dissertation, or Letter on this Subject, tom. 2. Geogr. Sacr. p. 892. Edit. Leid. 1707. Item, p. 899.
Fred. Freize, de ferro natante, 4 Reg. 6. 6. Thes. Phil.
John Dinkel has a Discourse upon the School and Disciples of Elisha; printed at Herford, 1580, in 8vo. He was a German of Thuring, a Lutheran Minister, and died in 1601.
Upon Ahab, Naboth, Ahaz; and Sennacherib.
S. Ambrose, de Nabouothe Jezraelita; Liber unus, t. 1. of his Works, p. 565.
Frid. Strottman. Achab appetens vineam Naboth, ad 3 Reg. 21. Thes. Theol. Philol. tom. 1. He was a German Lutheran.
Mark Rhodius, a German Lutheran, wrote upon the same Subject, at Frankfort, 1696, in 4to.
We speak of the Defeat of Sennacherib, and of the Retrogradation of the Sun on Ahaz’s Dial, in our Comment on Isaiah; and in tom. 2. p. 201. of our Dissertations. Basnage’s History of the Jews, tom. 5. l. 7. c. 11. of the Paris Edit. 1710.
Peter Beccer, a German Lutheran of Rostock, and Professor about 1703, has treated of the Sun’s Retrogradation, at Rostock, 1708, in 8vo. Emmanuel Porto has also discoursed of it. See upon Joshua.
Samuel Bochart, ad 4 Reg. cap. 16. ver. 20. Utrum quis anno ætatis decimo, liberos valeat procreare? tom. 2. Geogr. Sacr. p. 920. Edit. Leid. 1707.
Gaspar Neuman has treated of the Sustenance of the Samaritans, during the Siege of their City; at Wratislaw, 1707, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, of Wratislaw. Martin Homers, a German Lutheran, put out James Samaritana, at Lipsick, 1615, in 4to.
Upon several particular Subjects.
James Hasæus wrote some Dissertations upon Solomon’s and Hiram’s Fleets. The first is in the second Tome of the Philological Library, p. 468. It contains eighteen Articles.
M. Huet has likewise written upon Solomon’s naval Expeditions, in a Dissertation printed in French at Utrecht, 1698, in 8vo. and again in the Great Criticks.
Lewis Wolters, a Lutheran of Sweden, made a Dissertation on the Shew-bread taken by David; at Franekar, 1706, in 4to.
George Wolgang Wedel treated of Abner’s Wound, in his Philosophical Exercitations, printed from 1686, to 1704, in several Volumes 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and Doctor of Physick.
See our Dissertation on the Officers belonging to the Court and Armies of the Kings of Judah. Comment upon Chronicles. John Nicholas Quistorp, on David’s last Words; at Rostock, 1708, in 4to. See above.
Pantoleon Candidus wrote likewise upon David’s Child that died; printed at Basil, 1608. See upon Job.
Jeffery Cohlreif, Disputatio de arcu filiorum Judah, 2 Sam. 1. 18. at Keil, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran.
John Christian Ortlob has a Discourse upon David’s pretended Madness before Achish; at Lipsick, 1706, in 4to. See above.
George Languord has treated of the miraculous Change of Manasseh; at London, 1621.
John Michael Lange has three Disputations concerning the fatal Ministry of the High-priest Eli; at Altorf, 1701, in 4to. Another upon the Iron which swam upon the Water; at Jena, 1689, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran of Altorf.
Christian Gottlieb Schwartz has published two Disputations upon the Death of Achitophel; at Wittemberg, 1704, in 4to. He was a German Lutherrn of Misnia, in the beginning of 1700.
Joachim Stegman, a Socinian, who died in 1678, wrote a Letter upon the Question relating to Abiathar and Abimelech, and inserts it in the Works of Wolzogenius; at Amsterdam, 1656, in fol.
John Buxtorf, the Son, has written upon Elijah’s Translation; at Basil, 1660, in 4to. We shall speak of him in the fourth Part.
Christopher Besoldus has treated of the King’s Right mentioned by Samuel, ch. 8. ver. 11. of the first Book; printed in 1720, in 4to. He was a German, and a Lutheran.
James Schallerus has treated of Saul’s Reign in a Work published at Strasburg, 1670, in 4to. He was Lutheran Professor in this City towards the end of the 17th Century.
We have a Dissertation in the Philological Library, tom. 1. p. 826. upon the miraculous Cure of King Hezekiah, mentioned in the second Book of Kings, ch. 20. ver. 5, 11. and in Isaiah 38. ver. 5, 8. It is not said who is the Author of it, because he would not be known; but it is said, with some assurance, that he is a learned Man of Germany. What he mentions of the Sun’s Retrogradation, is the most curious part of his Work.
Bernard Peter Karll has a Dissertation on the Retrogradation of the Sun, in the same Bibliotheca, tom. 4. p. 635,662.
Samuel Werenfels made a Dissertation to clear Naaman the Syrian of all Hypocrisy; it is among his other Works of the last Edition, at Basil 1719, in 4to. There are likewise Observations on some Places in the four Gospels, upon the Acts, the Epistle to the Romans, to the Hebrews, and that of St. James. He was the Son of Peter Werenfels, whom we shall speak of when we come to the Article of Isaiah; born at Basil in 1657. made a Calvinist Minister in 1677. began to teach Philosophy in 1684, the Greek Language in 1685, Eloquence in 1687, and Divinity in 1696.
Godfrey Vallandus has written upon what is said in the first Book of Kings, ch. 20. ver. 33, 34. under this Title, Congressus Regum victoris & victi; printed at Frankfort, in 4to. and in the 1st Tome of the Thesaurus Dissert. Philol. See upon Genesis.
Valentin Alberti put out a Disputation concerning Jehu’s Zeal against the Ahabites and Baalites, mentioned in chap. 10. of the second Book of Kings. It was printed at Lipsick 1685, in 4to. See upon St. Matthew.
John Crambsius has an Exercitation upon Succoth-benoth mentioned in the second Book of Kings, ch. 17. ver. 30. printed at Jena 1667, in 4to. See upon Jonah.
Jessenius had a Dissertation printed at Copenhagen 1704, in 4to, upon the Horses and Chariots of the Sun, mentioned in ch.23. ver. 11. of the second Book of Kings.
Nicolai Abram, de transmigratione Babylonis, lib. 2. Phari V.T.
Julii Bartolocci Dissert. de decem Tribubus dispersis, & de fluvio Gozan. Biblioth. Rabbin. t. 1. p. 45.
See our Dissertation upon the Land whither the ten Tribes were transplanted, and where they are at this Day, our Comment upon Chronicles, and the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. part 2. p. 229.
Manasseh Ben Israel, Spes Israel, p. 28. & seq.
See the Authors cited in Fabricius’s Bibliographia Antiquaria, cap. 1. p. 16, 17, 18, 19.