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Bibliotheca Sacra · Part IV

Article XLVIII. Protestant and Jewish Commentators upon the Book of Proverbs.

AMong the Protestants who have written on this Book, are, John le Mercier, Geierus, Cartwright, Amama, and Giggeius; most of whom are in the Great Criticks, and in the Synopsis of the Criticks.

Cartwright’s Comment was printed likewise at Amsterdam in 1663, in 4to. the fifth Edition.

Martin Geier’s was printed at Lipsick, in 4to. the fourth Edition. That of John le Mercier at Leyden, 1651, in fol. with his Harmony.

As to the Jews, it is sufficient to see Giggeius. He was a Catholick, and an Italian of Milan, who lived till about 1630. He wrote no particular Com- Dissertation wherein we examine whether the old Legislators and Philosophers borrowed their Laws and Morality from Scripture. In the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 1. p. 579.

Valverde has explained every thing relating to the Mulier fortis in the Proverbs, at Rome, 1589, in 4to. He was a Spaniard of Castille, and died in 1590. He understood Greek and Hebrew; and was as expert in the management of controversial Points.

David Wendeler made a Disputation on the four Things difficult to explain in the 18th and 19th Verses of the 30th Chapter, at Wittemberg, 1676, in 4to. and in the Thesaurus Dissert. Philol. tom. 2. He was a German Lutheran, and lived about the end of the 17th Century.

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