Martin Geierus, a Lutheran, has made a large Comment on the Psalms, which is in good repute. He might have made it shorter and easier, if he had not affected a certain scholastick, strained, and uniform Method, according to some set common Places, which he had prescribed to himself. The last Edition of his Comment is of 1697, in fol. at Lipsick; it is likewise in the Collection of his Works, at Amsterdam, 1695, in three Volumes in fol. He was of Lipsick, a Lutheran Minister; and died in 1680. of his Age 66.
Hammond, Ainsworth, Rivet, Pricæus, Cocceius, Flaminius, and many others, have written with success upon the same Subject. See the Synopsis of the Criticks, and the Great Criticks of England.
Henry Hammond’s Work is a Paraphrase and Annotations in English; at London, 1659, in fol. and in his other Works, in four Volumes in fol. ibid. 1684. He was an Englishman, by Religion an Arminian; born in the Year 1605. He died in 1660. of his Age 57. His Comments abound with Erudition, and a certain Subtlety of Wit which is not common. He explains the most difficult Terms with great Clearness; sed latet anguis in herba.
The Notes of Henry Ainsworth are printed with those which he made upon the Pentateuch and Canticles, at London, 1639, in English, with his other Works; and separately ibid. 1621, in 4to. He was a Scotchman of Edinburgh, a Lutheran, and Professor at Lipsick. He died in 1665.
Andrew Rivet commented only on the Prophetick Psalms; namely, the 2, 8, 16, 19, 22, 24, 40, 46, 66, 110, 119. at Rotterdam, 1638, in 4to. Meditations on the Penitential Psalms, at Arnheim, 1638, in 4to. These are all in the Collection of his Works, in three Volumes in fol. at Rotterdam, 1651, 1660. He was a Calvinist, of St. Maixent in Poitou; was born in the Year 1572. and died in 1651.
The Notes of John Pricæus are at the end of the 5th tome of the Great Criticks; and were printed at Paris, in 1647, in 8vo. He was by nation an Englishman, born at London in the Church of England, but having travell’d and retir’d to Florence, he turned Catholick: which we may believe upon the testimony of Colomesius, in his Bibliotheque Choisie, p. 463. He died at Rome in 1676. He should therefore be placed among the Catholick Writers, as he is by M. Du Pin; and not among the Protestants, as he is by M. Simon. He was a Man of great Judgment, and had a vast compass of Learning.
John le Cocq, or Cocceius, made a large Comment, which was printed at Leyden, in 1660, in fol. He has also put out an Analysis of the Psalms in his Philological Anecdotes, already mentioned by us.
In Theodore Hasæus’s Philological Library, tom. 1. p. 1——59. part 2. we find Herman Deusing’s Explanation of the 118th Psalm. It is an Essay of an Exposition of several others, which he said were prepared to be made publick. We shall speak of him upon the New Testament. He has also put out an Explanation of the 119th Psalm, in the same Bibliotheca, t. 2. p. 174, 190. and of the 19th Psalm, ibid. tom. 1. p. 773. of the 90th, and 91st Psalms, tom. 3. p. 769, 849.
Gerhard Outhove’s Explanation of the 1st Psalm, p. 205, part 3. and 447, part 4. is only an Essay of some larger Design. He has also put out an Explanation of the 2d Psalm in the same Bibliotheca, tom. 2. p. 261. where is inserted a Catalogue of his Works. There is one upon the Manna of the Israelites, printed at Groninguen, in 1694, in 4to. We shall cite the rest when we are upon the New Testament; where we shall take notice of this Author. We shall only mention farther in this Place the Sequel of his Observations on the Psalm last named, which is in the same Tome, p. 642, 680. They regard particularly the divine Generation of the eternal Word, and are contained in 20 Articles.
There are also many Rabbins who have written upon the Psalms; such as Aben Ezra, Solomon Jarchi, &c. and an infinite number of more Catholicks and Protestants; some having written upon all the Psalms in general, others upon some in particular, upon the seven, or one only: these, it was no part of our design to mention particularly in this Place.