SAlom. Deylingi, de Origine Vaticiniorum in Gente Hebræa, Observ. Sacr. t. 1. Observ. 1. & 23. We have already often mentioned Deyling’s Observations: We have spoken of him above, and of the Edition of his Work.
See Cornelius à Lapide’s Preface and ours, upon the Prophets in general, and Isaiah in particular. See likewise St. Basil’s two first Homilies upon this Prophet, M. Du Pin’s Prolegomena upon the Old Testament, and F. Pezron’s Work upon the Prophets.
Saint Basil, in his first Homily, treats of the Excellency of the Gift of Prophecy. In the second he speaks of all the Visions which the Prophets had, and explains the manner of them.
Cornelius à Lapide, in his large Preface, discourses concerning the Excellency of the Prophetical Books, of their Obscurity, and the different Sorts of Prophecies; and takes notice of all the Authors who have explain’d them. He likewise gives Rules for the better understanding of the Prophets, with a chronological Concord.
M. Du Pin, in his Prolegomena, treats of the manner how to distinguish false Prophecies from true, of the Succession of the true Prophets among the Jews; and confutes M. Simon on this Subject.
F. Pezron’s preliminary Discourse upon the Prophets, relates to their Antiquity, the Sucession and Necessity of Prophets.
What follows is an Essay of a literal and historical Comment upon the Prophets, wherein he explains four Chapters of Hosea, all Joel, Amos, Obadiah, and three Chapters of Isaiah; at Paris, 1693, in 12mo. in French. This Piece, tho it is in appearance small, may be of great use to understand the Scriptures; for in it the Author explains what is most difficult in the Prophets, confutes the Errors of the Jews with relation to the Messiah, and confirms the orthodox Faith. But this is part only of a larger Comment which he was projecting upon the Prophets; it were to be wished that he had executed so vast a Design with the same success. M. Du Pin, in the seventeenth Century of his Biliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom. 5. p. 488, &c. has given us a pretty long Extract of his first Specimen.
We have already said something of F. Pezron upon Exodus; when we were upon the Jewish Passover: it may be proper to speak more largely of him in this Place. He was born at Hennebon, a small Town in Britany, in the Year 1639. He entred the Cistercian Order in 1660. professed in the Abby of Prieres in 1661. went to Paris, and studied in the College belonging to the Bernardins: after his Licence made out at the Sorbonne, the Abbot of Prieres chose him for his Secretary. Here he was Master of the Novices in 1673. was recalled to Paris in 1677. receiv’d Doctor in 1682. and in 1697, the King nominated him to be Abbot of Charmoie. He relinquished his Abby in 1703. and died in 1706, at 67 years of age. He was a Man of great Learning, and had studied very much the ancient Monuments of profane History; but he gave way too much to his Conjectures, and was very apt to form Systems: However, he wrote easily and agreeably, without Sharpness or Passion; as appears in the Contests he had with F. Martianay upon some Points of Chronology, as we take notice in the Article of Sacred Chronology. He was meek, humble, and modest in Conversation; and truly religious in all his Conduct. Joan. Alberti Fabricii Bibliographia Antiq. Here he describes the Marks of true and false Prophets. See likewise his Codex Pseudepigraphus; wherein he produces several Pieces attributed to the Prophets, in Greek and Latin, and has inserted very curious Notes.
Joan. Spencer. lib. 3. de Legib. Hebr. Ritual. c. 2. 3.
Henrici Dodvel, Ep. 2. de Studiis Theologicis. Abarbanel Prolegom. in Daniel.
Joan. Gerson Libell. de probatione Spirituum. In this Treatise he instructs us how to know true and false Prophets. It is among his Works, both of the old and new Edition. It is likewise in the Acts of the Council of Constance, tom. 3. p. 23.
Herman. Witsius, Miscell. Theolog. In the second Tome of his Miscellanies, and first Exercitation, he speaks of the Glory of the Messiah revealed in the 6th Chapter of Isaiah. We speak of him in the Article of Sacred Geography. Petri Molinæi Vates, lib. 4. Leid. 1640, 8vo. Besides his Vates, wherein he treats of the knowledge of Things future, of good and bad Prophets, he published the Completion of Prophecies, at Sedan, 1612: He was of Vexin, a Calvinist; born in 1568. was Minister at Orleans, and died in 1658.
David Knibbe, de historia Prophetarum, lib. 4. Belgicè. He was a Flemish Calvinist, and Preacher at Leyden in the beginning of the 18th Century. His History was printed ibid. in 1708. and at Berne in Germany, 1709, in 4to.
Petri Petiti, lib. 3. de Sybilla, &c.
Nicolaus Gurtler, Systema Theologiæ Prophetica Amos. 1702, in 4to. In this Piece he treats of Prophecy and Prophets. He was of Basil, a Calvinist, and Minister. He died in 1711.
With him we may join Abraham Gulich, who wrote a Piece intitled, Theologia Prophetica de rebus Veteris Testamenti; printed ibid. in 1675. For Gurtler has done no more than followed Gulich’s Method, expounding the Prophecies according to the order of Time in their Accomplishment; and treats of those which, as yet, have not had their Completion.
Caroli Bovilli de visione prophetica Domini exercituum sedentis super solium. His Treatise upon the first Vision of Isaiah, must be printed in his Questions upon the Old and New Testament; for we find nothing of it elsewhere. He was of Vermandois, Canon of Noyon; and died about 1520.
Deylingii in Isai. 11. 10. Qui stat in signum populorum, Observ. Sacr. tom. 2. c. 23.
Joan. Frischmuth, de Evangelio è Sione gressuro, ad Isai. 2. 1. This Treatise was printed at Jena, in 1669, in 4to. He has also published his Prosopographia Messiæ upon the 9th Chapter of Isaiah, ver. 6. ibid. 1664, in 4to. and several other Works upon the same Prophet; whereof, perhaps, we may have an opportunity of speaking. We have treated of them above.
Christ. Lochner, in hunc Isaiæ locum, Ecce virgo concipiet, Isa. 7. 14. This is in the first Tome of Philological Dissertations. He was a German Lutheran.
See Bossuet’s Dissertation on the same Subject; Paris, 1704. and ours on the same Passage, printed before our Comment on Isaiah; and in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 3. p. 390.
Landriani Tract. de partu Virginis, in 4to. Mediolani, 1639. He was an Italian, who lived in 1640. His Treatise shews him to be rather a Divine than a Critick, who so explains Scripture.
Sam. Andreæ de nativitate Emanuelis, in Thes. Theol. He was a Calvinist, and Professor at Marpurg about 1680. His Treatise was published at the same Place.
Freder. Spanheim, in Isai. 7. 14. in dubiis Evangelicis, Dub. 34. They were printed at Geneva, in 1700, in 4to. in two Volumes; the fourth Edition. He was of the Palatinate, born in 1600. was Minister at Geneva, Professor at Leyden; and died in 1649.
Samuel Bohl Commentar. Biblio Rabbinic. in Isa. 7. This Comment was printed at Stetin, in 1636, in 4to. and in the Philological Dissertations, tom. 1. He was of Pomerania; and died in 1639.
The Dissertation of M. Roger on the same Chapter, in 8vo. Paris, 1713. contains two Dissertations, critical and theological; the second whereof is upon Ecce virgo concipiet, &c. printed in 1715, in 12mo. He was of Bourges, Dean of the Cathedral Church: Perhaps he may be still living.
Dissertatio Franc. Vavassor, de forma Christi, p. 317. Operum Vavassor. This of Vavasseur contains four Chapters; wherein he defends the Beauty of Jesus Christ against those who attacked it.
Rigaltii de forma, seu specie Christi, in the first Edition of his Tertullian. I do not know why it was expunged out of that of 1641. which is the best, and largest. He came into the World at Paris, and died in 1652. of his age 80. He was learned, and judicious in the choice of those Matters upon which he treated; but his Style is too studied and bombast.
See our Dissertation on the Beauty of Jesus Christ before our Comment upon Isaiah.
Andreæ Lencer, de Prosopographia Messiæ, in Thesaur. Diss. This Treatise is in the tenth Tome of the Great Criticks, of the last Edition, p. 754. It is upon the 9th Chapter of Isaiah, and relates to the Birth of the Messiah. F. le Long has not mentioned it in his Bibliotheca Sacra.
Boileau, Dean of the holy Chapel at Paris, has made a Dissertation to shew that Jesus Christ was of low stature: I do not know whether it be printed.
John Rodolphus Cramer wrote a Dissertation to explain the 16th Verse of the 48th Chapter, which he understands of the Son of God; printed at Herborn, 1701, in 4to. He was of Zurich, born in 1678. was Professor from 1702 to 1717, and longer. His other Works are mentioned in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 11. p. 572.
Pauli Slevogth, de morbis & doloribus Messiæ, Isa. 53. printed at Jena, 1644, in 4to. He was of Saxony, a Lutheran; and died in 1655.
Alberti Clingii, in Isa. 53. 9. Dabit impios pro sepultura, &c. The Title of his Dissertation is, De Oscilegio circa sepulchrum Christi; and is to be found in the Thesaur. Dissert. Phil. tom. 1.
Joan. Andr. Dansii, in eundem Isaiæ locum; at Jena, 1670, in 4to. and upon the 53d Chapter. He published Judæus proprio jugulatus gladio, ibid. 1679, in 4to.
Salom. Deylingi in Isa. 8. 1. de libro magno & stylo hominis, Observ. Sacr. t. 1.
Ejusdem in Isa. 9. 5. de clavi quam Christus in humero, ibid.
Vide et in Isa. 9. 6. Observ. tom. 3. c. 17. De Quiros, S. I. in Canticum Ezechiæ, Isa. 38. printed with his other Works at Seville, 1622, in fol. See above upon Deuteronomy.
Dissert. upon Isa. 53. 8. de angustia & de judicio sublatus est, &c.
There is a critical Dissertation upon Isaiah by F. Souciet, a Jesuit; or a Defense, shewing that the Hebrew Text of Isaiah 53. ver. 8. is intire, and not vitiated, against the correction which M. Indés, a Divine of Salamanca, would make of it. See the Passage of Isaiah in question: Propter scelus populi mei percussi eum.
See the Collection of Critical Dissertations printed at Paris, for Wit, in 4to. 1715.
Peter Werenfels wrote a Dissertation upon a Virgin’s bringing forth a Child, mentioned by Isaiah, chap. 7. ver. 14, 16. and upon the Passage of Daniel, chap. 12. ver. 1, 2, 3. at Basil, 1669, in 4to. He was of Basil, a Calvinist, the Son of John James Werenfels; born in the Year 1627. and was living in 1675, according to Hofman, in his Universal Dictionary.
John Daniel Schramme made some Observations upon ver. 1, 8. of chap. 29. They are in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 3. p. 327. They consist of thirty Articles. Here he asserts that this Passage relates to the Defeat of Sennacherib, and not to the Ruin of Jerusalem, against the Opinion of other Interpreters.
James Hasæus explains, in a Dissertation, what we are to understand by the Cymbalum Alarum, mentioned in the 1st Verse of the 18th Chapter, in the same Collection, tom. 5. p. 563, 618. It contains four Chapters. To this he has added another Dissertation on the same Subject, ibid. p. 298, 360. which contains the 5th and 6th Chapters.
Gerard Othovius has a Dissertation upon the Empire of the Messiah, mentioned in chap. 9. ver. 5. It is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 6. p. 824, 955. in Article 19.
David Clodius wrote a Disputation upon the Virgin’s bringing forth a Son, chap. 7. at Giessen, in 1685, in 4to. He was a German of Hamburg, a Lutheran, and Hebrew Professor at Giessen. He died in the Year 1687.
John Cloppenburg wrote upon the 53d Chapter, at Franekar, 1656. Gerard Meier has four Dissertations against the Jews concerning the Generation of the Messiah, spoken of in chap. 53. of Isaiah; at Wittemberg, in 1686, in 4to. We shall speak of him in another Place. See the Index.
Gotlieb Ectstein wrote upon his glorious Sepulchre, at Wittemburg, 1682, in 4to. See upon Zechariah.
John Deutschmann has treated of the Conception and temporal Birth of the Messiah, upon chap. 7. ver. 14, 15. at Wittemberg, 1700, in 4to. See upon St. Matthew.
Joh. Juste Kisker wrote upon the Burial of Jesus Christ, in chap. 53. at Rinthel, in 1699, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, Professor at Rinthel towards the end of the 17th Century.
Henry Opitius wrote upon the 53d Chapter concerning the Messiah, against Grotius and the modern Jews; at Kiel, 1702, in 4to.
Emmanuel Rybiner wrote a philological and theological Dissertation upon the City of Tyre, mentioned by Isaiah; and in it has inserted all that the Prophets foretold of it; at Basil, 1715, in 4to. He was a German of Basil, and a Calvinist; who lived in the beginning of the 18th Century. This is all that he has written.
Christian Sahmius treated of the Retrogradation of the Sun, in two Disputations, at Koningsburg, 1689, and 1696, in two Volumes in 4to. We have spoken of him upon Exodus.
William Salden has treated of the dumb Dogs, spoken of in chap. 56. ver. 10. It is in his Otia Theologica. See Article 27.
John Frederick Scharff wrote upon a Virgin’s miraculous bringing forth a Child; at Wittemberg, 1653, in 4to.
Andrew Daniel Habichhorstius wrote Dissertations upon Isaiah, from the 1st to the 25th Chapter; published by John Fecht, at Rostock, 1705, in 4to. They are only upon some principal Places. He has treated likewise in particular of the Lamb, the Ruler of the Land, mentioned in chap. 16. ver. 1. in 4to. See the 27th Article infra, upon Ezekiel.
Henry Burton has treated of the Fast of the Israelites, mentioned in chap. 7. at London, in 1628. He has also written something upon the Revelations, which we shall speak of in its place. He was an Englishman, an Independent; and lived about 1628.
Sebastian Curtius has treated of the Birth of Emmanuel, upon chap. 7. ver. 14. at Marpurg, in 1554. He was a German Lutheran.
John Rodolph Secholzer has written upon the 2d Verse of the 2d Chapter, where there is mention of the Mountain of the Lord’s House. This Piece was printed at Zurich, in 4to. The Author was a Swiss Calvinist. He lived in the beginning of 1700.
John George Abicht has explain’d Isaiah’s Prophecy, in chap. 9. ver. 1. alledged by St. Matthew, chap. 4. ver. 13. He follows the Hebrew Text, that he may give the literal Sense of it; at Lipsick, 1708, in 4to. He wrote likewise a Disputation upon the Punishments of the Jewish Commonwealth, revealed under Symbols in the 1st Chapter of Jeremiah, ver. 11——16. 1708, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and Hebrew Professor at Lipsick about 1708. We shall speak of him again upon Jonah.
Andrew Geret upon the Retrogradation of the Sun; at Wittemberg, in 1673, in 4to. This is all he wrote. He was a German Lutheran.
Henry Maïus, the Son, has explain’d the 3d Verse of the 12th Chapter, as meaning the Messiah; printed at Frankfort, 1711, in 4to. He borrows all he says of this matter from Jonathan’s Chaldee Paraphrase; which, by the confession of the Jews, is older than even Jesus Christ.
Josias Henry Opitius, mentioned by us upon Numbers, proves, in a Dissertation against Abarbanel, that Jeremiah should be the first of all the Prophets. It was printed at Lipsick, 1704, in 4to.
Lastly, William Whiston wrote eight Sermons, in English, upon the Completion of the Prophecies in Scripture, together with a Dissertation upon Christ’s Ascension; printed at Cambridge, 1708, in 8vo. His whole design is to point out the Time wherein the Prophecies were made, and that of their Accomplishment.