BAlt. Cordèrii Catena Græcorum Patrum in Lucam; printed in Greek and Latin at Antwerp, 1628, in fol. It is composed of 65 Greek Fathers, and serves as an Introduction to explain the four Evangelists. He has added Notes to it, and supplied it with Passages from the Greek and Latin Fathers. We shall speak upon St. John of that which he wrote in particular upon this Evangelist.
Origen has written 39 Homilies on St. Luke, which go as far as the 20th Chapter of this Evangelist. We have them remaining only in Latin, of St. Jerom’s Version, in the Latin Editions of Genebrard and Frobenius.
Tertullian, in his fourth Book against Marcion, is very large upon St. Luke.
Theophilus of Antioch has also composed an allegorical Comment on St. Luke: See upon St. Matthew, what we have said of this Author’s supposed Comments.
St. Ambrose’s Comment includes ten Books, and is in the first Tome of the new Edition, p. 1262. It is his particular Endeavour to reconcile the four Evangelists in those Places wherein they seem to contradict one another. He explains the natural and historical Sense, and oftentimes the mystical; and, more especially, opposes the Heresies of his time, which attacked the Divinity of Jesus Christ. See what R. Simon says of it in his Critical History of the New Testament, chap. 14. p. 207. M. Du Pin esteems his Preface very much; wherein he shews what is peculiar to each of the Evangelists, and that the Church, at all times, acknowledged only four Gospels.
Titus Bostrensis has a Comment on St. Luke, printed at Ingolstadt, 1580, in 8vo. in Latin, of Peltan’s Version; in both Greek and Latin, at Paris, 1627, in fol. says Lipenius: But we are of opinion that he meant the Bibliotheca of the Greek Fathers, tom. 4. p. 762. and the Latin Bibliotheca of Lyons, tom. 4. p. 415. This is not a Work composed by him alone, but a Collection of several Fathers; as appears by the Title of a Manuscript in the King’s Library, num. 2320. which may be by an Author of the 6th Century, as is remarked by William Cave. He was Bishop of Arabia Petræa, and died in 371.
St. Bonaventure’s Exposition on St. Luke, is in the eighth Tome of his Works; and was printed separately at Venice, 1575, in 8vo.
Theophylact, Euthymius, Bede, a certain Author, whose Comments upon the four Gospels we have among St. Jerom’s Works, whereof we have spoken on St. Matthew; John of Jerusalem, and Zachary of Chrysopolis, have written upon this Gospel. Zachary, and the rest mentioned by us in the Article of Harmonies, have nothing in particular on St. Luke; having written on the four Gospels.
St. Bernard has four Sermons upon the 1st Chapter, the 26th, and following Verses, from Missus est Gabriel Angelus, as far as Ecce Ancilla, Domini, &c. It is an Exposition altogether spiritual and moral.
Christian Druthmar, a Monk of Corbie, has given us an Abridgment of St. Luke, with what he wrote upon St. Matthew, and St. John. We have already taken notice, in the Article upon St. Matthew, of what Druthmar has written upon St. Luke. We shall add here that the first Edition was published at Strasburg, by John Wimpheling, in 1514, in fol. whereas the second, of 1530, was corrected by Henry Molther; for which reason these two Editions are different. That inserted in the Bibliotheca Patrum, of Lyons, is the corrected Edition. Lipenius takes notice of one at Paris, 1639. which does not seem to be very probable.
S. Hieronymi Ep. ad Damasum, tom. 4. p. 149. of the new Edition. In this he explains the Parable of the prodigal Son.
Among the Moderns we have Cajetan, Didacus Stella, Cornelius Jansenius of Ypres, Angelus de Paz, John Maldonat, Francis Tolet on the twelve first Chapters, John Servius, Sebastian Barradius, and Socolovius.
Didacus Stella’s Comment has been printed several times; the last Edition is of Mentz, 1680, in fol. He explains the literal and moral Sense. He was of Estella in Navarre, of the Order of St. Francis; and died a Bishop, according to Possevin. His Comment of the Editions before 1581, was prohibited at Rome, and put into the Index. See Wading’s Bibliotheca of the minor Brothers.
Cornelius Jansenius, of Ypres, in his Tetrateuch already mentioned by us, does likewise explain St. Luke.
Angelus de Paz’s Comment is printed with his other on St. Mark, in 1623, 1628. in three Volumes in fol. John Maldonat, in his Comment on the four Gospels.
Francis Tolet’s Comment on the twelve first Chapters, with his Annotations, was printed at Cologn, 1612, in fol. the fourth Edition. He was a Spaniard of Cordua, a Jesuit, and Cardinal; he died in 1596. Dominicus Soto, his Master, call’d him a Prodigy. There is some mention of him in Thuanus’s History.
Notwithstanding he is diffuse in his Comments, he is accurate. He first of all explains the Text, afterwards he adds Notes, wherein he treats of different Subjects. See what R. Simon says of him in his Critical History of the New Testament, chap. 41. p. 606. Sebastian Barradius has inserted St. Luke in his Harmony of the four Gospels.
The Notes of Stanislaus Socolovius, are printed with those written by him on St. Mark, and St. Matthew. See above.
Contzen, Cornelius à Lapide, Luke of Bruges, Erasmus, &c. without reckoning others who have written on the four Gospels.