Theophilus of Antioch, or another under his Name, as is above-mentioned.
Origen had commented the whole Gospel of St. John; but we have no more, in Genebrard’s Latin Version, than to chap. 16. ver. 10. M. Huet has not published any thing beyond this, in Greek and Latin.
St. Chrysostom has given us only 87 Homilies upon St. John; they are in Greek and Latin, tom. 8. of Morell’s Edition. See what R. Simon says of them in his Critical History of the New Testament, chap. 10. 11. D. Montfaucon reckons 88, in the 8th Tome of his new Edition.
St. Austin’s excellent Treatise, whereby he has particularly distinguished himself, is in the third Tome of the new Edition, Part 2. p. 290. We may say of it, that as St. John excels the rest of the Evangelists in the sublime Knowledge of Mysteries, so St. Austin has excelled all those who have explained this Gospel.
St. Cyril of Alexandria has likewise a large Comment on St. John, in t. 4. of the Paris Edition, by F. Simond, in Greek and Latin: But it is to be observed that the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Books, are by Clictoveus, and not St. Cyril. There are ten Books of St. Cyril’s Comments on St. John, with Fragments of the 7th and 8th Books, in the Greek and Latin Edition of Paris, 1638.
Theophylact and Bede have written nothing in particular on St. John, but upon the four Gospels; so that they belong to the general Article of those who have written on the four Evangelists.
Alcuinus has composed seven Books upon St. John. They were printed separately at Augsburg, 1527, in 8vo.
Abbot Rupert, Hugo de S. Victor, St. Thomas, with what they wrote upon the three other Gospels. St. Bonaventure, or John de Fidauza, has a Postil upon St. John; printed in the second Tome of his Works, at Rome, 1688. at Mentz, 1609. Richard de Mediavilla, or Midleton, and Zachary of Chrysopolis. This last, in his Harmony of the Gospels. See the first Article of this Part.
Nonnus put St. John into Greek Heroicks. His Work is rather a Paraphrase upon this Evangelist, and is so intitled. There are several Editions of it: That of the Jesuit, F. Abram, with his excellent Annotations printed at Paris, 1623, in 8vo. and at Lipsick, 1629. is one of the best. The Story of the Adultress, which Nonnus did not read in St. John, is supplied by this Father in 71 Verses. Daniel Heinsius has also published Nonnus, with a very long Comment, intitled, Aristarchus Sacer, whereof we have already said something; and printed at Leyden, in 1627, in 8vo.
Christian Druthmar, a Monk of Corbie, has made a short Comment on St. John. It is with what he has written on St. Luke. See above; or his Title in the Index.
Of the Moderns, Benedict Pererius has Disputations on St. John; printed at Lyons, 1608, and 1610. in two Volumes in 8vo. We have taken notice of him in the Article upon Genesis. We shall only add here, that his Questions are very much esteemed by M. Simon and M. Du Pin, for his judicious Choice, and his Solutions of them.
Francis Tolet, Cardinal, has joined Annotations to his Comment on St. John; printed at Cologn, 1639, in fol. the last, and sixth Edition. We have said something of him above, upon St. Luke.
That of Francis Ribera, a posthumous Work, and very short, was printed at Lyons, 1633, in 4to. the third Edition. We shall say more of him upon the Epistle to the Hebrews, and upon the Revelations.
There are likewise Thomas Cajetan, John Ferus, Cornelius Jansenius of Ypres, John Maldonat, John Servius, Titelman, Sebastian Barradius, Cornelius à Lapide, Lucas Brugensis, Erasmus, Laurentius Valla, &c. in their Notes upon the New Testament. See what we have said of them on St. Matthew.
John Ferus, besides his Comment on the Gospel, and first Epistle of St. John, printed at Louvain, in 1559, put out likewise an Apology for this Comment, against those who ventured to attack it. It is of 1572, in 8vo. at Mentz.
Claudii Guilliaudi Bellojocensis, in Joan. Enarrationes; Paris, 1548, in fol. or 1550, and 1585. He was a Frenchman, Canon of Autun about 1540. We shall say more of him hereafter. See his Title in the Index.
Joan. Gregor. Baptistæ Funches. Monachi Benedict. in cap. 13. Joan. Conimbr. 1621, in fol. These are Annotations, whereof there is a part only printed. He was of Portugal, and lived about 1621. Nicholas Antonio tells us, that after he had been a Benedictine, he took to the Order of St. Francis.
We may add Charles Boville, who explain’d only the first Chapter of St. John. His Explanation was printed at Paris, 1514, in 4to. in Latin. We shall say more of him upon the Acts.