UPON the Author of the Psalms, see the Prefaces of Bossuet, Du Pin, and F. Calmet; and ours prefixed to the Psalms.
S. Hieronymi, in aliquot loca Psalm. 126. nov. Edit. tom. 2. p. 711. On the Poetry, Musick, and musical Instruments of the Hebrews, see hereafter the particular Article inserted by us on this Subject.
Upon the Titles of the Psalms, see St. Gregory of Nyssa, tom. 1. p. 257, & 291. His Work is of the moral kind.
Item, upon the 6th Psalm, on these Words, De octava, p. 367.
Upon Sela, see St. Jerom, de Diapsalmate Epist. ad Marcellam, tom. 2. nov. edit. p. 706.
Jul. Bartolocci de Sela, Bibl. Rabb. t. 2. p. 268.
Joan. Paschii, de Sela philologicè enucleato, Thes. Th. Phil. Henrici Gotlieb Reime, de voce Selah, Miscel. Lipsiens. t. 2. See likewise our Dissertation on Selah and Lamnatzeach, in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 293.
We have put out a Dissertation on the Titles of the Psalms, and another upon the gradual Psalms, in our Comment; and in our Collection, tom. 2. p. 293.
Joan. Helvic. Willemer, de Osculo Filii, Psalm. 2. 12. printed at Wittemberg, in 1704, in 4to. the second Edition; and in the Thesaur. Dissert. Philolog. tom. 1.
Joan. Frischmuth, de Messia Dei Filio, Psal. 2. 7.
The same, de reverentia Filio Dei præstanda, Psal. 2. 12. at Jena. The same, de Messia in Sepulchro non relinquendo, Psal. 15. 10. Item, de Messiæ manuum & pedum perforatione.
Nicol. Joan. Leth, de Seol, seu de Inferno, Psalm. 15. 10. in the Thesaurus of Philological Dissertations, tom. 1. He was a German Lutheran.
See our Dissertation on the Words, They pierced my Hands and my Feet, Psal. 21. 18. in our Comment on the Psalms; and in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 2. p. 303. See likewise our Dissertation on the Charming Serpents, Psal. 57. 5. in the same Collection, tom. 2. p. 311. A critical Letter on the same Subject, among those of M. I. printed in 8vo, at Amsterdam, 1715.
Joan. Phil. Pfeiffer, de Dæmonio Meridiano, upon Psal. 90. 5, 6. This was printed at Montreal, or Koningsburg, in 1673, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and lived about the end of the 17th Century.
Salom. Deyling. in Psal. 50. 8. Asperges me hyssopo, &c. Obs. Sacr. tom. 2. 1—19. Joan. Car. Beyer, de peste diurna & nocturna, ibid. Beyer’s Dissertation on the 5th and 6th Verses of the 91st Psalm, is in tom. 1. of the Thesaur. Dissert. Theol. He was a German Lutheran. Deyling. in Psal. 95. 10. Dominus regnavit à ligno, Obs. Sacr. tom. 2. c. 21. Item, in Psal. 110. Christi Divinitatis assertio, ibid. tom. 3. chap. 14. Samuel. Bochart. in hæc verba, Psal. 109. 3. Tecum principium, &c. t. 2. nov. edit. Leid. an. 1707. p. 904, 907.
Mich. Hieron. Boccius, ornamentum Festi, seu in hæc verba, Psalm. 117. 27. Constituite diem in condensis, &c. This is in the same Thesaurus, and was printed at Amsterdam, in 1677, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and flourished in 1679.
Theodore Hasæus, of Bremen, Professor of Divinity, made a Disputation upon the Inscription of the 22d Psalm; which he explains as relating to a musical Instrument: It is in the first Tome of the Bibliotheca Philologica, printed at Bremen in 1719, in six Volumes in 8vo. He confesses his Opinion to be altogether singular, but shews it to be supported by good Authorities. His other Works are taken notice of in the same Collection, tom. 1. p. 561.
John d’Outrein wrote fifteen Dissertations upon ver. 16. of the 89th Psalm; wherein he treats of Trumpets, and of Melchizedeck. The Author, upon the occasion of these Words, Beatus populus cognoscens clangorem, according to the Translation of the Hebrews, produces every thing that he could collect concerning Trumpets, the Use whereof was very common in the old Law. In the next place, he undertakes to shew that these Trumpets were a Figure of the Gospel, and of the Manner wherein it should be preached. To make this Opinion more plausible, M. d’Outrein begins with an Analysis of the whole 89th Psalm, and with the Interpretation of Nathan’s Prophecy; whereof this Psalm is, in his opinion, only an Explanation.
This Work concludes with some of M. Cupes’s Letters, and M. d’Outrein’s Answers; wherein the latter maintains the Dissertation which he wrote to prove that Melchizedeck is the Son of God, who appeared to Abraham in a human Figure. Without admitting this Opinion, there is no explaining, as M. d’Outrein thinks, what St. Paul says, that Melchizedeck is still living, that he was without Father and without Mother, and without Descent. This, he adds, is the only possible means of explaining the following Words of the 110th Psalm, Thou art a Priest for ever, after the Order of Melchizedeck. From this Passage our Author takes occasion to fall upon those, who pretend that the Psalm above-mentioned may be understood literally of David. Unless this Place in Scripture relates directly to the Messiah, nothing was more easy, says M. d’Outrein, than for the Jews to have replied to Jesus Christ, who objected this Passage to them, The Lord said unto my Lord, that David was therein spoken of.