Upon the Beginning of his Gospel.
Salom. Deylingii de voce Logos, Observ. Sacr. tom. 1. Herman Witz, in his Academical Dissertations, at Utrecht, 1714.
Schurtz Fleischius, and Saubert in his Prodromus Philologiæ Sacræ, printed at Helmstadt, in 1665, in 4to. This is by Saubert the Father, or in Saubert the Son’s posthumous Works, wherein he explains several Places of the Scripture; printed at Altorf, in 1694, in 4to. by the care of John Albert Fabricius. This other Saubert was a German Lutheran of Nuremberg; and died in 1688.
See M. le Clerc’s Exposition of the first eighteen Verses of the first Chapter of St. John; and F. Baltus’s Defence of the Holy Fathers accused of Platonism, in 4to.
Salom. Deylingii in Joan. 1. 16. Gratiam pro gratia, Observ. tom. 3. c. 33.
Upon the Lamb of God, and the Pitchers of Water at the Marriage of Cana.
Cana.
Joan. Frischmuth de Agno Dei, Thes. Theol. It was printed likewise at Jena, 1674, in 4to. We have spoken of him several times; and shall again speak of him.
Deyling. de eodem, Observ. tom. 3. c. 35. Weinmann has a Disputation on the same; printed at Altorf, in 1660, in 4to. He was a Lutheran, Professor at Altorf; and died in 1672.
Mattheus Hostus, de sex Hydriarum Capacitate; in the great Criticks, tom. 9. of the first Edition. We have already spoken of him upon Noah’s Ark, and upon David.
Justus Soffings put out a Work intitled, Ecce Agnus Dei, or the Lamb of God pointed out by Saint John Baptist; printed at Rudolstat, in 1669, in 8vo. He was a German Lutheran.
Stephen Klotzius, Disputatio Inauguralis de Agno Dei, ex Job. 1. ver. 29. at Rostock, 1634, in 4to. Christian Matthias has also a Disputation on the same Subject; printed at Nuremberg, 1619, in 4to.
Vide & Claud. Lancelot, ad Calcem Bibl. Vitrè, in fol. p. 88. He was a Parisian, a Benedictine of St. Cyran; and died in 1695. being only a Subdeacon, tho advanced in Years.
Upon Nathanael, and Nicodemus.
Joan. Kindler, de Nathanael, ad Joan. 1. 46. This must be in his Philological Dissertations; printed at Amsterdam, 1699, in 8vo. He was a German Lutheran.
Whether Nathanael is the same Person with St. Bartholemew, see our Comment on St. Matthew 10. 2. and the Author cited by me, Rupert Tostatus, Jansenius, Comelius à Lapide, and Hammond.
James Borste has written of the same Nathanael in German; printed in 1671, in 12mo. and George Frederick Greter put out Nathanael Christianus, in German, likewise printed at Hall, in 1676.
Severin Sluterus, a German Lutheran, put out Jesus Christ’s Conversation with Nicodemus ; at Rostock, in 1672, in 4to. Lipenius calls him Severin Walther.
There was a piece likewise in German printed at Altemburg, in 1672, and 1683. intitled, Nicodemus ; divided into four Parts.
Upon the Day of our Saviour, and the Pool of Bethesda.
Christopher Augustus Heuman, of whom we have spoken upon Genesis, See Lot, wrote a Dissertation upon chap. 8. ver. 56. where it is said, that Abraham desired to see the Day of Jesus Christ. It is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 1. p. 473. the fourth Part.
Frederick Adolphus Lampe, made one upon the same Passage : It is in the same Collection, p. 485, 518. We have said something of him upon Deuteronomy. See the Title of these two in Deuteronomy.
John Laurence Mosheim, a Lutheran Doctor at Lubeck, has explained the same Passage in the same Collection, tom. 2. wherein he reports the different Opinions of several Authors.
David Wendeler, and Mich. Arnold, Dissertatio de Piscina probatica Joan. 5. ver. 2. in the second Tome of Philological Dissertations. That by Wendeber was printed separately at Wittemberg, in 1678, in 4to. We have spoken of him in the Proverbs. As to Michael Arnold, he was a German Lutheran.
John Frischmuth wrote likewise a Philological Dissertation on this Fishpool; printed at Jena, 1661, in 4to.
John de Outrein has made an historical and philological Dissertation de Piscina probatica, mentioned in the fifth Chapter. It is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 1. p. 597, 661. Here he examines the Time, Place, and other Circumstances of this Miracle.
Upon the Passion of our Saviour, and St.
John’s Person.
Salom. Deylingii, de aceto Christo sitienti porrecto, in his Sacred Observations, tom. 1. De jure gladii Judeis adempto, ibid. tom. 2. chap. 33, and 34. Gasparis Sagittarii, de lancea, quâ percussum est Christi latus, in St. John, chap. 19. ver. 34. at Jena, 1673, in 4to. This is an Answer to Philip Langen.
Job. Christ. Ritter, de aqua ex Christi latere profluente, in the eleventh Tome of the Great Criticks, p. 388. Thomas Bartholin has also put out de latere Christi aperto; at Leyden, 1646, in 8vo.
Joan. Andreas Quenstedt de vulneribus Christi; printed at Wittemberg, in 1704, in 4to. We have spoken of him on St. Matthew. John Nicholas Jacob has a philological Dissertation on the same Wounds; printed at Lipsick, 1686, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran.
John Conrad Dannhawerus has written on Jesus Christ’s seven last Words upon the Cross: This was printed at Strasberg, in 1684, and 1697, in two Volumes in 4to. See upon the Acts. James Reichman a German Lutheran wrote upon the Inscription on the Cross: It was printed at Wittemberg, in 1655, in 4to.
We have already observed that Bynæus has treated very well of every thing relating to the Circumstances of our Saviour’s Passion.
Upon the Person of John the Evangelist; read the Preface written by the Commentators on his Gospel; and Tillemont's Ecclesiastical History upon his Death.
See what has been written pro and con upon this Subject.
George of Trebizonde, in his Opusculum, printed at Basil, in 1543, in 8vo. explains these Words; Si volo eum manere, &c.
Tillemont, tom. 1. Art. 10, 11. on St. John the Evangelist; and Notes 15, 16, 17, 18.
Malvenda de Antichrist. l. 9. chap. 11, 12.
Fabric. Notes upon the Life of St. John by Abdias, inter Apocryph. N. T. p. 581, & Seq. & Addenda, p. 984, 985.
Ambros. Catharinus, in his Comment. And, lastly, we ourselves, in our Dissertation upon the same Subject, before our Comment on St. John’s Gospel; and in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 3. p. 455.
Other Dissertations upon several Subjects.
Salom. Deyling. in Joan. 7. ver. 38. Qui credit in me, Flumina de ventre ejus fluent aquæ vivæ; In his Sacred Observations, tom. 2.
Herman Deusing has one upon the 25, and 28 Verses of the 5 Chapter; where he pretends that Jesus Christ speaks of a spiritual Resurrection. We find it printed ibid. p. 805, to 825. See upon the Revelations. We have spoken of him elsewhere.
George Schaub has a Dissertation upon the Woman of Samaria, in the same Collection, tom. 5. p. 1005, 1032. We speak elsewhere of Deusing. See upon the Revelations.
Abraham Calovius, so often mentioned by us, made a Disputation upon the beginning of St. John’s Gospel; printed at Wittemberg, 1652, in 4to. Upon our Saviour’s fasting in the Wilderness; ibid. 1676, in 4to. Upon his Passion and Death, ibid. 1653, in 4to.
Cornelius Hasæus, of whom we have said something upon Genesis, has written upon Jesus suffering in the Palace of Caiaphas; printed at Bremen, 1703, in 4to.
Didacus del Castillo, Bishop of Grenada, about 1590, made a Disputation upon the sixth Chapter; printed at Rome 1593, in 4to.
Andrew Helvig, a Lutheran of Pomerania, has examin’d whether the Feast, mentioned in chap. 5. was the Passover; printed at Rostock 1634, in 4to.
Albert Joachim Krackewitz, mentioned by us upon St. Matthew, has made a Dissertation upon Christ’s washing his Disciples Feet; printed at Kiel, 1707, in 4to.
Antony Loisel, a French Catholick, has given us an Explanation of chap. 4. ver. 15. in his Works, printed by Claude Joly, at Paris, 1652, in 4to. p. 22. He died in 1652.
Andrew Malmen, a Lutheran of Sweden, has made a Disputation upon chap. 10. printed in 1645, in 4to.
John Frederick Mayer has treated of the Miracles of Jesus Christ, mentioned by St. John, at Grypswald, 1703, in 4to.