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Bibliotheca Sacra · The Fifth and Last Part

Article XVII. Protestant Commentators on Saint John.

Of these, Martin Bucer upon St. John, and the three other Gospels; printed at Basil, in 1536, in fol. Wolfang Musculus has a particular Comment on this Evangelist; printed ibid. 1618. the sixth Edition.

Bullinger wrote a Comment on the same; printed at Zurich, 1548, in fol. Œcolampadius wrote one likewise; printed at Basil, in 1535, in 8vo. Pelargus divided his by Questions and Answers; printed at Frankfort, in 1615. Gomar’s Explicatio locorum selectorum in Johan. in his Works at Amsterdam, 1644, in fol. Melanchton, who has only Notes upon St. John, printed in the first Title of his Works; and separately at Wittemberg, in 1523.

David Chytræus, who has a Comment printed ibid. in 1589, in 8vo. John Camero, who put out seven Sermons in French upon the 6th Chapter; printed at Saumur, in 1624, in 8vo.

William Zepper made a logical Analysis, with Scholia and Observations; printed at Herborn, 1595, in 8vo. Cassiodore de Reyna, who put out Annotationes in Evangelium Joannis, sive Apologia pro æterna Christi Divinitate, contra Judæos, Ebionitas, &c. at Frankfort, 1573, in 4to: John Brentius wrote 27 Homilies on St. John; printed separately at Frankfort, in 1569. the third Edition; and, besides, an Exegesis, which is in the 6th Tome of his Works; and printed apart ibid. in 1543, in 8vo.

Calvin wrote a Comment, which is join’d with his Harmony of the three first Evangelists; whereof we have already said something in the Article of Homilies by Protestants.

Theodore Beza, and Grotius, in their Comments on the Gospels, have joined St. John with the other Evangelists. Piscator has a logical Analysis of his Gospel in particular; printed at Hesse, in 1608, in 8vo. the third Edition.

Lightfoot has also included St. John in his Horæ Hebraicæ, elsewhere mentioned by us. See his Title.

Capellus, Hammond, and several others, have likewise explain’d him in what they have written on the New Testament.

M. le Clerc, besides his French Comment, has published a Paraphrase, and an Exposition of the eighteen first Verses of the first Chapter of St. John, immediately before his Comment upon Exodus. They were printed separately at Amsterdam, 1696, in 8vo. and in English at London, 1698, in 8vo. and in Latin before his Latin Comment, in fol.

Revius, Drusius, Henry Stephens, Scaliger, Casaubon, and Gualtperius, are in the large Criticks, and the Synopsis.

Alexander Alesius, a Scotchman of Edinburgh, a Lutheran, and Professor at Leyden, who died in 1565. has a Comment upon St. John, which was printed at Basil, 1553, in 4to. And several others have written in particular upon St. John.

Elias Benost, a Calvinist, and Minister of Delf, has written against le Clerc; printed at Rotterdam, 1695, in 8vo. Le Vassor’s Analysis is with that written by him on St. Matthew.

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