EE Pearson’s Annales Paulini, & Swhich to him seems most conformable to the Letter of the Scripture, without blaming that which is not approved by him. He observes carefully such Passages as are opposite to Heresies, without engaging in Controversial Disputes. He avoids Questions that are fit only to exercise the Subtlety of the School-Divines. He contends against Novelty, and maintains the Authority of the Holy See. He explains the moral Sense by the finest Passages of the Fathers, without falling into impertinent and disagreeable Digressions. He every where reproves Corruption of Manners, and the Relaxation of Christian Discipline. Lastly, he settles the Rules which lead the Souls of Men thro’ the strait Way, pointed out to us by Jesus Christ, and the Apostles.
F . Bernardin Picquigny, a Capuchin, mentioned by us on the four Gospels, wrote a large Comment in Latin upon St. Paul’s Epistles; printed at Paris, in 1703, in fol. He afterwards abridg’d it in French, and printed ibid. in 1714. in four Volumes in 12mo. the second Edition. It consists of three Parts; namely, an Analysis, which being placed before every Chapter, sets forth the Design and Sequel of it; a Paraphrase, which goes along with the Joachimi Langii Commentatio. Hermeneutica, de Vita & Epistolis D. Pauli; Magdeburg. 1718, in 4to.
There are also Castalio, Grotius, Zeger, Casaubon, Cameronius, Henry Stephens, Drusius, Scaliger, Gualtpert, James & Lewis Capellus, printed in the large Criticks, tom. 7. and Extracts of Beza, Hammond, Piscator, Camerarius, Schmid, Strigelius, Vorstius, and Knatchbul, printed in the Synopsis.
Besides the abovementioned, we find in the Great Criticks, Scultet, who wrote only upon the two Epistles to Timothy, and those to Titus and Philemon; and Scipio Gentilis, upon the Epistle to Philemon. Scultet’s Performance consists of grammatical, historical, and logical Observations upon these Epistles; and Sketches of Sermons upon the rest, in four Volumes in 4to. printed in different Places, and in different Years. He was of Silesia, a Calvinist; and died in 1625. He has also composed other Comments, which we speak of elsewhere. Gentilis was a Lutheran Lawyer, and died in 1616.
As for Theodore Beza, what he has written is a short and methodical Explanation of the Epistles of the Apostles; printed at Geneva, in 1570, in 8vo. the second Edition. We speak more largely of him in another Place. See his Title in the Index.
What Henry Hammond has composed upon St. Paul, is comprised in what he published upon the whole New Testament in English; printed at London, 1681, in fol. the fifth Edition; in Latin, with John le Clerc’s Notes, at Frankfort, 1714. the second Edition, in two Volumes. We have spoken of him elsewhere: as likewise of John Piscator, whose Work upon the New Testament was printed separately, at Herborn, 1651, in two Volumes in 4to. and upon St. Paul, ibid. 1610, in 8vo. with an Analysis, on his five last Epistles, ibid. 1596.
Camerarius’s Comment is likewise upon the whole New Testament; printed with that of Beza, at Cambridge, 1642, in fol.
The Comments of Sebastian Schmid upon St. Paul’s Epistles, excepting those to the Philippians and Titus, are in five Volumes in 4to.
That of Strigelius comprehends the whole New Testament; printed at Lipsick, 1565, in 8vo.
That of Conrad Vorstius was printed at Amsterdam, 1631, in 4to. It does not go beyond the first Epistle to Timothy. As for Knatchbull, his Comment was printed at London, in 1659. and elsewhere.
Aug. Marlorat has made a Catena of several Protestant Authors on St. Paul’s Epistles; such as Luther, Melancthon, Brentius, Bullinger, Bugenhagius of Pomerania, Sarcerius, Peter Martyr, &c.
Henry Bullinger has not only written on St. Paul’s Epistles, but upon those likewise called Canonical; the whole printed in one Volume in fol. 1603, at Zurich; the sixth Edition. He made a particular Comment upon the two Epistles to the Corinthians, ibid. 1534, 1535, in two Volumes in 8vo. He put out abundance of other Comments; of which, and of himself, we speak in another place.
Bugenhagius of Pomerania, before mentioned by us, wrote upon the Epistles of St. Paul, except part of the first to the Corinthians, and the whole second Epistle; printed at Basil, Haguenau, and Wittemberg, in different Years.
Erasmus Sarcer put out only Meditations upon the two Epistles to the Corinthians; printed at Strasburg, 1544, in 8vo. Notes upon the Epistle to the Galatians and Ephesians; at Frankfort, 1542, in 8vo. We have spoken of him upon Kings.
What Lewis de Dieu wrote upon St. Paul, is compriz’d in what he published upon the whole New Testament; at Leyden, 1646, in 4to. and at Amsterdam, 1693, in fol.
Herman Reiners, in his Observationes Sacræ, has enlarged much upon the Epistle to the Ephesians, and the two to Timothy: They are in the Biblioth. Philologica, tom. 3. p. 957—990.
John George Schelborn made likewise Observations upon the Epistle to Titus, and those to the Hebrews and Ephesians; in the same Collection, tom. 5. p. 859, 876.