T. Jerom, and St. Cyril of Alexan- Stions on the two Advents of our Saviour, by Peter Allix, a Calvinist Minister. These serve as Explanations to the second Chapter of Daniel, against the Jews; and were printed at London in Latin, in the Year 1701, in 12mo.
Herman Witsius has treated of the four Beasts mentioned by Daniel, in his Miscellanea Sacra: See upon Jeremiah, and his Title in the Index. Bernard Peter Karll wrote a Dissertation on the same Subject, printed in the Bibliotheca Philologica, t. 3. p. 804, 848. whereof there are 33 Articles. Another upon the Colossus, ad cap. 2. ibid. tom. 5. p. 66, 109.
Upon different Subjects in Daniel.
Herman Witsius, de Michaele, in his Academical Exercitations printed at Utrecht, in 1714.
Michael Boot has treated of Daniel’s prophetical Disease, in the 10th Chapter, at Bremen, 1690, in 4to. This is all that he has written upon the Scripture. He was a German Lutheran, and lived towards the end of the 17th Century.
Balthasar Meisner put out the School of Babylon, upon the first Chapter of Daniel, at Wittemberg, 1620, in 4to. See upon Hosea. John Andrew Quenstedt has treated of the God Maozin, spoken of in chap. 2. ver. 38. printed ibid. 1702, in 4to. the second Edition.
Peter Werenfels wrote a philological Dissertation upon the 12th Chapter; printed at Basil, 1669, in 4to. See upon Isaiah.
John Frischmuth undertook to explain all that the Prophet has said of the Messiah in chap. 9. ver. 24, 26, 27. printed at Jena in 1670, 72, and 77. in three Volumes in 4to. Robert Janson wrote a short Dissertation upon Daniel’s Visions; printed at Clausemburg, in 1625, in 8vo. This is the fictitious Name of Andrew Vaidovius, a Polonian, Socinian, and Minister. David Holzhalbius has written Disputations upon several Places; printed at Leyden, in 1714. and mentioned in the Philological Library, tom. 2. p. 570. He was of Zurich, a Calvinist; born in 1677. made Minister in 1697. and Professor from 1702, to 1716. dria, are the first of this number. St. Jerom’s Comment follows those which he has written on the four great Prophets. That of St. Cyril is in the third Tome of his Works, of the Edition of 1638, in fol. It had been printed before separately at Ingoldstadt, in Greek and Latin, by the Care and Direction of James Pontan, 1607, in fol. It is necessary to see what we have said of his other Comments upon the Scripture in the Article of General Commentators, and upon Isaiah.
Rufinus of Aquileia should come next to these two Fathers. He wrote three Books upon Hosea, with a Preface upon the twelve small Prophets. Moreover, a Comment upon Joel, and Amos. All which is printed with his Works at Paris, 1580, in fol. We have spoken of him upon the Psalms, and Genesis. Theodoret, Theophylact, Abbot Rupert, and Remy d’Auxerre, have likewise written upon the twelve small Prophets; excepting that the Comment of this last is as yet only in manuscript, as we shall observe in its place. What he wrote upon the other small Prophets, was printed at Antwerp, 1541. with OEcumenius upon St. Paul. It has been since inserted in the new Bibliotheca Patrum of Lyons, with his other Works, tom. 16. We have spoken of him upon the Psalms, and Genesis: we shall speak again of him upon St. Paul.
Theodorus of Mopsuestia has written also upon the same Prophets; but his Work is as yet only in manuscript, in the Hands of Dom. Anselm Banduri, a Benedictine Monk, and Library-Keeper to the great Duke of Tuscany. He is particularly known for his Imperium Orientale, and other Works with which he every day enriches the publick.
Rabanus Maurus, Christ. de Castro, and Francis Forerus, have done the same. Christopher de Castro’s Comment was printed at Paris, in 1616, in fol. Those of the two others are with what they have written upon the great Prophets, whereof we have spoken above.
Gaspar Sanctius, Francis Ribera, Cornelius à Lapide a Jesuit, and Benedict Arias Montanus, have written upon all the small Prophets, without taking notice of those who have made Comments on the whole Bible.
The Comment written by the former of these, is with what he composed on Baruch, at Lyons, 1621, in fol. There are eight Editions of Ribera’s Comment. The first is of 1571. at Antwerp, in fol. and the last of 1611. at Doway. But he put out, separately, an historical Comment upon the same Prophets. It is an Abridgment of his large one; at Antwerp, 1611, in 8vo. the third Edition.
M. Simon says that there is nothing extraordinary in this Author as to the critical Part, and that he had but a moderate Knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages: But several Persons, of great Learning, have a quite different opinion of his Comment upon the Prophets. In this he endeavours, particularly, to explain the literal Sense, and the Ways of speaking peculiar to them. St. Jerom, is his great Author, whose Works he had read with application. He has, moreover, given Rules for the understanding this Father’s manner of writing: Nor could he produce any thing but what was good and useful, while he followed so good a Guide.
He was of Ville-Castin, in the Territory of Segovia in Spain; took the Jesuits Habit in 1570, at 33 years of age; taught at Salamanca, and died in 1601. being, according to M. Du Pin, but 54 Years old. Crow says he was 57. Nicholas Antonio, a Spanish Writer, places his Death in 1591. He had as much Piety as Knowledge, egregiè doctus & pius. We shall speak again of him in another Place. See his Title.
Cornelius à Lapide’s Comment upon the twelve small Prophets, comes after those written by him on the great. That of Arias Montanus was printed at Antwerp, 1571, and 1582.
Joan. Jossarii Aquilovicani, &c. We have already mention’d his Comment in Article 43. it being comprized in what he wrote upon the great Prophets.