ST. John Chrysostom has made 55 Homilies upon the Acts, They are in Greek and Latin, in the ninth Tome of the Paris Edition, by Morell.
Venerable Bede has two sorts of Works upon the Acts, which he himself calls two Books: These, without doubt, are his Comment, and his Retractations. Besides these, there are Questions. The whole is in the fifth Tome of his Works.
OEcumenius, in his Comment, is no more properly than an Abbreviator of St. Chrysostom.
Arator the Deacon, who lived in the Emperor Justinian’s time, about the Year 530. has put the Acts of the Apostles into Epick Verses; printed without a Comment, at Cologn, 1573, in 16°. by Pulman, who has made Corrections; and in the Bibliotheca Patrum, of the Lions Edition, tom 10. p. 145. with Comments by Arius Mendoza, printed first at Salamanca, 1506, in fol. He was of Liguria, and Subdeacon of Rome about 544. for in this Year he addressed his Poem to Pope Vigilius.
Of the Moderns, there are Thomas Cajetan, who explains the Acts in his Com ment on the New Testament; and John Gannai, Doctor and Chancellor of the University of Paris, who flourished in 1545. and has written Scholia on the New Testament; particularly on the Acts, and on St. Paul’s Epistles. His Scholia upon the Gospels, and the Acts, were printed at Paris, 1660, in 8vo. the last Edition; and in de la Haye’s first Bible, who promises them likewise in the Title of his Biblia Maxima: But they are not in the body of this tedious Work. See what M. Simon thinks of them in his Critical History, chap. 40. p. 579. He was of Paris, Almoner to Francis I. and died in 1549. M. Du Pin believes his Notes to be useful and necessary to those who would understand well the literal Sense of the Text of the New Testament, in a short time, without having occasion to read large Comments.
Lorinus, whose other Works upon the Old Testament have been taken notice of by us, has a Comment on the Acts, which was printed at Lions, in 1605. with Corrections and Enlargements, ibid. 1609, in fol.
That of Salmero, is in the twelfth Tome of the great Collection of his Comments; in our account whereof we have been more particular above.
Fromond, or Ferimont, or Fremont, Libertus Fromondus, a Professor in the University of Louvain, who died in 1658. has written an excellent Comment on the Acts, which has been often printed in fol. It is with his other Comments of the Paris Edition, 1670, in fol. and separately of Louvain, 1654, in 4to.
Bartholomæus Petri, a Professor of Doway, afterwards Canon of the same Place, has written, with great Success, upon the Acts of the Apostles. His Comment was printed at Doway, in 1622, in 4to. He died in 1630. at the age of 85.
Hofmeister, in 12 priora capita Actuum Apostolorum. His Comment was printed in 1578, in fol. the second Edition. If we believe Gandolf, he has also commented the other sixteen Chapters. We have taken notice of him on St. Mark.
Lewis Novarinus, his Comment was printed at Lions, in 1645, in fol. we have heretofore spoken of him.
Gaspar Sanctius, Benedict. Pererius, and Cornelius à Lapide, have also written very well upon the Acts. Erasmus, and Lucas Brugensis, whose Notes upon the Acts, are in the Great Criticks, all have their merit, as well as John Ferus, who wrote Enarrations; printed at Paris, 1558, in 8vo.
Nicholas du Bois, has Academical Lectures upon the Acts; which were printed at Louvain, 1666, in 4to. He was of Flanders, and Professor of Divinity at Louvain, about 1666.
Arthur Pitsæus wrote a Comment upon the Acts; wherein he disputes against the Heresies of his Time. It was printed at Antwerp, 1636, in 4to. He was an Englishman, Chancellor to the Cardinal of Lorrain, Canon of the Cathedral-Church of Verdun; not of Liverdun, as we read in the Front of his Bibliotheca of the English Writers.
John de Sylveira, who has disposed his Comment with those written by him on the Gospels. F. Mauduit’s Analysis, printed at Paris, in 1697, in two Volumes in 12mo. with Dissertations on difficult Places. This is the Continuation of the Design formed by him of explaining the New Testament, in the method which is called de resolutione.