ORigen has fourteen Homilies upon Jeremiah, which are printed in Genebrard’s Edition: Balthazar Cordier has put them out since in Greek and Latin at Antwerp, 1648, in 8vo. under the name of Cyril. Matthew Cariophilus published seven, and Allatius eight, in his Catena of the Greek Fathers upon this Prophet, together with his Latin Version; at Lyons, 1628, in fol. The whole with Michael Gislerus’s Comment and Paraphrase upon the same Prophet, upon Lamentations, and Baruch; ibid. 1623, in three Volumes in fol.
M. Huet has published twenty of Origen’s Homilies, in Greek and Latin, upon the same Prophet. They are far from including Origen’s whole Comment on Jeremiah. The 19th Homily, both Greek and Latin, goes no farther than the 12th Verse of the 20th Chapter; and the 20th in M. Huet’s Edition, is a Fragment of Origen’s 39th. The Subject of it is the 22d Verse of the 44th Chapter.
St. Jerom wrote upon the two and thirty first Chapters of Jeremiah.
Theodoret, Rabanus Maurus, Abbot Rupert, Abbot Joachim, St. Thomas, or the Author cited under his Name, and Haymo of Halberstadt, have written upon all Jeremiah.
Paschasius Radbertus has an Exposition of the Lamentations; printed at Cologn, in 1532. the second Edition, in 8vo. under the counterfeit Name of Robert; and in his Works. See above.
Hugo de St. Victor, and St. Bonaventure, have explained this Book.
Among the Moderns, John Ferus has commented all Jeremiah; but his Discourses upon the Lamentations are printed separately at Lyons, 1567, in 8vo.
Christoph. de Castro, a Jesuit, has a Comment upon Jeremiah, the Lamentations, and Baruch, at Paris, 1603, in fol.
Andrew Capella, upon Jeremiah, clears the Latin Vulgate, and compares it as well with the Hebrew Text as with the Version of the Septuagint, and the Chaldee Paraphrase; in 1586, in 4to. He was of Valencia in Spain; turned Jesuit, and afterwards Carthusian, in 1569. was named Bishop of Urgelle in 1588. and died in 1610. He understood Greek and Hebrew, and was a Pattern of Virtue.
Gaspar Sanctius, Cornelius à Lapide, John Maldonat, and Luke of Bruges, have commented all Jeremiah. I say nothing of those who have made Comments upon all the Scripture.
Upon Lamentations, Maldonat, and Martin Delrio, both Jesuits, Hector Pintus, of the Order of St. Jerom, Antony Agellius, Canon Regular, and Bishop of Acerno, and John Quinquarboreus, Royal Professor of Hebrew at Paris, in 1585. Antony Agellius’s Comment is taken from Greek Authors. He likewise made an Explanation, to which he has joined the Catena of the Greek Fathers with his Latin Version; at Rome, 1589, in 4to.
Martin Delrio’s Comment is altogether literal; printed at Lyons, 1608, in 4to.
Fr. Joan. Latherburi Ordin. Min. Moralia in Threnos Jeremiæ; 1492, in fol. His Exposition is a laborious and large Work, for it contains 115 Chapters upon Lamentations only. F. le Long places the Edition in 1482. not in 1492, as we have done. He was an Englishman, and lived about 1460.
Augusti Thuani Paraphras. in Threnos Jeremiæ. It was printed at Tours, in 1588.
The Reader may see several others in Lipenius’s Bibliotheca Theologica, tom. 2. See Threni. Upon Baruch, in particular; Theodoret, Maldonat, Christopher de Castro, Peter Maucorps, Ghisler, without mentioning those who have written upon all the Prophets.
Protestant and Jewish Commentators upon Jeremiah.
Among the Protestants we have Bugenhagen. He wrote upon Jeremiah, and the Lamentations; at Wittemberg, 1555, in 4to. He was a Lutheran of Pomerania: He died in 1558. of his Age 73. He was, as Thuanus says, a Man of Moderation, and very uncommon Erudition.
Peter Martyr has a Comment on Lamentations only; printed at Zurich, 1629, in 4to. Strigelius has written on the same: His Piece was printed at Bremen, in 1567, in 4to. He has also written upon the great and small Prophets.
Cocceius, Drusius, Gataker, and Calvin, whose Lectures upon Jeremiah were printed at Geneva, 1589, in fol. collected by John Buddæus and Charles Joinvillier, his Disciples.
John Tarnovius wrote in particular upon Lamentations: It was printed at Hamburg, in 1707, in 4to. He composed this Comment in 1624. and John Carpzovius published the first Edition of it above 60 Years ago. In that which we have mentioned, there are short, but instructive Prolegomena prefixed.
Among the Rabbins are Solomon Jarchi, David Kimchi, and Moses Alsec, who has published a Comment upon the Lamentations, intitled, Vox Flentium, in Hebrew, at Venice, 1606, in 4to. There are others besides, who may be seen in F. le Long and Lipenius.