Upon Hosea, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah. JUlius Bartolocci, in the second Tome of his Rabbinical Library, p. 767. put out an Explanation of the first Chapter of Hosea, relating to the Call of the Gentiles. We may add Phelippeaux, who has joined a Preface, that deserves consideration, with his Comment upon the Greek Versions of the Bible, and their different Corrections; the whole printed at Paris, in 1636, in fol. The Author was of Angers; turned Jesuit in 1594, and died in 1643.
Andrew Rivet’s Comment was printed at Leyden, 1625, in 4to. and in the Collection of his Works, tom. 2. We have spoken of him elsewhere. See his Title in the Index.
2 Emma- Emmanuel Tremellius in Hoseam. His Comment was printed separately in 1563, in 8vo. We have spoken of him in the Article of Latin Bibles by Protestants. See his Title in the Index.
Jerom Osorius, the Elder, on Hosea and Zachary, in tom. 4. of his Works; of the Edition of Rome, 1592. See his Title in the Index.
Quinquarboreus, upon Hosea and Amos, with his other Works. See above; and his Title in the Index.
Lightfoot has explain’d the first four Chapters of Hosea; printed in the Collection of his Works, in two Volumes in folio. We have already spoken of him. See his Title in the Index.
Aug. Thuani Paraphrases in Joel, Amos, Obadiam, Jonam, Habacuc, Cæsaroduni Turonum, 1592, in 8vo.
Hugo de S. Victor has written upon Joel, and Obadiah; with his other Comments.
Benjamin Boner wrote a Paraphrase upon the Prophet Joel, wherein he shews that the Prophet foretold all the Fury of the War with the Turks; at Frankfort, 1597, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, of the 16th Century.
Levinus Pouchein has explain’d it in a manner altogether scholastick; printed at Montreal, or Koningsberg in Prussia, 1649. He was a Lutheran, and died in 1648.
John James Schurman put out an Analysis, with an Explanation in Flemish, which was printed at Wesel, in 1703, in 4to. The Author was a Dutch Calvinist, in the beginning of the 18th Century.
Pocock has written a Latin Comment upon Joel; printed at Lipsick, 1695, in 4to. He had no other view but that of setting forth the literal Sense, which he thought had been neglected by the Interpreters. See his Title in the Index.
Charles Mary de Veil has likewise explain’d this Prophet by the Scripture; printed at Paris, 1676, in 12mo. He has added to the literal Sense many fine Remarks from the Fathers and Interpreters, from the Manners and particular ways of speaking in use among the Hebrews; whereof he had a perfect Knowledge, being by birth a Jew. We shall mention him again upon the New Testament.
Sebastian Bedingfield has Discourses upon the three first Chapters of Amos in Latin, at Oppenhein, 1615, in 8vo. and in English at London, 1629, in 4to. He was an Englishman, born in the County of Gloucester; and died in 1630. He had read very much the Fathers, and School-Divines.
John Gerhard put out Notes upon the same Prophet; printed at Jena, 1676, in 4to. the third Edition. Paul Laurent, whom we mention elsewhere, has Discourses in German, printed at Lipsick, 1604, in 4to.
Lawrence Humphredus translated Obadiah out of Hebrew into Latin, and added an Explanation; printed at Basil, in 1559, in 4to. according to F. le Long; in 1589, according to Du Pin in his Tables, tom. 4. p. 1221. of the Paris Edition in 8vo. We speak of him in another Place. See his Title.
Solomon Gesner wrote a Comment upon Obadiah; printed at Hamburg, 1618, in 8vo.
Francis Gosmar has also a Comment upon Obadiah; printed with his other Works at Amsterdam, 1644. in 3 Volumes in fol. We shall speak of both these Authors in another Place. See their Title in the Index.
Upon Jonah, Micah, Nahum, and Ha- bakkuk.
Joan. Catardi Enarratio in Jonam. This is not barely an Interpretation, but, as Konig says, who is cited by F. le Long, includes Notes too upon Jonah. He was of Limaigne in Auvergne. His Work was printed in 1601, at Paris. This Author lived in 1550.
Francis Feuardent, upon Jonah, was printed at Cologn, in 1594, in fol.
John Ferus, a Franciscan, who lived in the 16th Century, and died in 1554, has likewise written upon Jonah, in German; and his Comment was printed at Cologn, in 1567, in Latin; at Venice, 1567, in 8vo.
Andreas Mylius Comment. Grammatico- Critic. in Jonam in Thes. Theol. It was printed also at Frankfort, 1624. and at Montreal, or Koningsberg, in 1640, in fol. He was a German Lutheran, Professor of the Hebrew Tongue.
Joan. Bugenhagii Pomerani Jonas Propheta expositus; Wittemberg. 1561, in 8vo. We have spoken of him. See his Title.
Frederick Albert put out the Prophet Jonah, with Illustrations, the Masora, and textual Comments of Rasi, Aben-Ezra, David Kimchi, and Abarbanel; at Lipsick, 1684, in 8vo. He was born in Moravia; from a Jew he became a Lutheran, taught the Talmud at Lipsick, in 1690. Having made his Escape from this City in 1695, he returned to Judaism, according to the opinion of many. We have already said something of him. See his Title in the Index.
John Leusden wrote likewise upon Jonah, &c. as we have said already in the 61st Article. We must add Augustus and Sigismond Pfeiffer. The first published Lectures upon this Prophet, revised and reduced into an accurate Comment; at Wittemberg, 1671, and 1706. Sigismond wrote a Dissertation, which we shall speak of in the following Article.
Albert Grawerus wrote upon the Prophet Micah. He published a clear Explanation, wherein he examines several controversial Questions. It was printed at Jena, in the Year 1664, in 4to. Gaspard Graxard made a Comment; printed at Salamanca, in 1570, in 8vo. Albert was of Meskou, in the March of Brandenburg; born in 1575. He was sent into Hungary in 1595. return’d to Wittemberg in 1599. was made Rector of the College of Islebe, and afterwards Dean of Mansfield; Lutheran Minister of the Diocess of Weymar in 1616. and died in 1617. Among those of his Sect he went for an accurate Divine, and a Man of good Judgment.
Aug. de Quiros, S. I. in Nahum, & Malachiam, Hispali, in fol. 1622.
Julianus Toletanus in Nahum. Bibl.
PP. tom. 12. p. 630.
Hector Pintus, of the Order of St. Jerom, upon Nahum.
Theodore Bibliander translated the Hebrew Text of Nahum into Latin, and joined with it an Exegesis, or Exposition; wherein he gives Reasons for his Version, and explains his Opinion. It is with what he published upon Micah, at Zurich, 1534, in 8vo.
Solomon Gesner has also put out a Comment upon this Prophet, at Wittemberg, 1604, in 8vo. This is the last time we shall mention this Author. See his Title in the Index.
Jansenius of Ypres upon Habakkuk and Zephaniah, printed after his Comment upon the Libri Sapientales. We have spoken of him upon the Pentateuch, and shall again speak of him on the Gospels.
Antonii Gueveræ Commentarius & Ecphrasis in Habacuc. This, with his Notes upon the Psalms, was printed at Antwerp, 1609, in 4to. the third Edition. He was a Spaniard, a Lawyer, and Prior of Escalada in the 16th Century.
Antonius Agellius, Episcop. Acernens. in Abacuc. Antwerp, 1697, in 8vo. We have spoken of him on the Psalms, and Canticles. The rest of his Works on Scripture are not printed, for he wrote many.
Solomon Vantill made a new Comment upon Habakkuk; printed at Leyden, 1700, in 4to. See lower upon Malachi.
Alphonsus Padilla published a moral Comment, Notes, and Discourses; printed at Rome, in 1702, in fol. He was a Spaniard, of the Order of Minims, and was living in 1704. Upon Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachary, and Malachi.
We have already mentioned several above who have written on Zephaniah.
Martin Bucer, a Protestant, wrote a Comment upon Zephaniah, with a Latin Version from the Hebrew; at Strasburg, 1528, in 8vo. See his Title.
Henry Gebhard has commented only part of this Prophet; at Grypswald, 1695, in 4to. We have spoken of him upon Judges.
John Eckius, or Ecken, made a Comment upon Haggai; printed at Salignac, 1538, in 8vo. which is all he ever wrote upon the Scripture. He has particularly distinguished himself by his controversial Works. Possevin says his Comment is short and learned. It was printed likewise with his other Works, in 1530, in fol. We have taken notice of him in the Article of German Bibles.
Franciscus, or rather Joan. de Reyroles, Ord. Minim. in Zachariam Quæstiones literales & morales; Paris, 1631, in folio. M. Du Pin calls him John de Rairoles.
William Pemble, an English Protestant, wrote an English Exposition of this Prophet; printed at London, 1629, in 4to. F. le Long says that it is only of the six first Chapters. He died in 1632.
Samuel Bohl, a Protestant, has an Analysis, from the first to the eighth Chapter, which is continued to the end by Zachary Grapius; at Rostock, 1711, in 4to. See their Titles.
Zachary Schilter wrote a short Exegesis, or Exposition; printed at Lipsick, in 1604, in 8vo. He was a German Lutheran. See his Title.
Didacus Stunica, a Catholick already mentioned by us, made a Comment, wherein he has the three Editions of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, with Rules for the Direction of Manners; at Salamanca, 1577, in fol. See his Title.
Samuel Szattmar, a German Calvinist, and Professor of the Hebrew Tongue, put out an Explanation printed at Utrecht, 1715, in 4to.
Solomon Vantill is he, of all the Protestants, who has written most on Malachi; for he published an Explanation, printed at Leyden, 1701, in 4to. with a Dissertation upon the Situation of Paradise, whereof we have already said something. He has prefixed an Introduction to his Comment; wherein he confutes both Origen, who believ’d this Prophet was an Angel, and the Rabbins, who attribute this Prophecy to Esdras.
Samuel Bohl put out the Comments of the Rabbins upon the Prophet Malachi, together with Hebrew Disputations and Explanations; at Rostock, 1637, in 4to.
John Martinius made Observations, with an Analysis, at Groninguen, 1645, in 4to. 1658, in 8vo. He was of Dantzick, a Lutheran; and lived about 1665.
Among the Rabbins, Solomon Jarchi and Kimchi have written upon these twelve small Prophets. It is sufficient to see Bohl, and Frederick Albert, who have publish’d the Comments of other Rabbins.