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Bibliotheca Sacra · The Fifth and Last Part

Article XXXI. Catholick Commentators upon the Epistle to the Galatians.

ST. Jerom has written three Books of Comments on the Epistle to the Galatians. In these he has inserted what he had read in the old Commentators that went before him; but without naming them, and often without even correcting them.

St. Austin has explain’d the Epistle to the Galatians in a continued Comment: and this, of all St. Paul’s Epistles, is the only one which he has explain’d from one end to the other.

Claudius of Turin, Bibl. PP. tom. 14. p. 139. He lived about the Year 820. and wrote a very long and useful Exposition of the Epistle to the Galatians; wherein he makes use of the Hints which he had received from others, who wrote before him.

Adam Contzen has a Comment upon the Epistle to the Galatians, printed with his other upon the two Epistles to the Corinthians. See above.

That of Marinus Grimani, is printed with his Comment upon the Epistle to the Romans, at Venice, 1542, in 8vo. He was a Venetian, Patriarch of Aquileia, Bishop of Porto, and Cardinal. He died in 1546.

Jerom Seripandus wrote two Comments upon this Epistle; one printed with his Comment upon the Epistle to the Romans, at Naples, 1601, in 4to. the other separately at Venice, 1586, in 4to. the fourth Edition: wherein he answers Questions relating to the Text of this Epistle. He was an Italian, of the Order of St. Augustin, Archbishop of Salerno, and Cardinal. He died in 1563.

Lewis of Leon, mentioned by us upon the Canticles, has joined his Explanation of this Epistle to that which he made on Obadiah; printed at Salamanca, 1589, in 4to.

Gregory Polydore of Tuscany, an Augustinian, explain’d several Places of this Epistle; printed at Lucca, 1625, in 4to.

Adam Sasbout wrote upon all St. Paul’s Epistles, except the two to the Corinthians; printed at Cologn, in 1568.

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