MONG the Protestants we reckon Aaffecting Passages of the New Testament, with short Reflections and Notes, in French. The Title alone of this Work discovers the Matter and Advantages of it. The Order which is observed in it is simple, natural, and very proper to beget good Desires. We find in Luther, who has written no Comment particularly upon the four Gospels, but has only explained some Chapters of every Evangelist. This is to be found in the several Tomes of his Works; and has been very exactly noted by Lipenius, in the second Tome of his Bibliotheca Theologica. See the Titles of the four Evangelists.Calvin made a Comment upon all four of them ; printed at Geneva, 1572, and 1609, in fol. Beza, whose Comment is printed at Geneva, in 1598, in fol. Pelican, whose Comment is in the second Tome of his Works ; printed at Zurich, in 1582, in fol. Zuinglius, whose Comment is only upon the History of the Gospel, printed ibid. in 1639, in fol.
We may farther reckon in this number Zegerus, Drusius, James Revius, Castalio, Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, John Camero, Otho Gualtper, James Capellus, & Lewis Capellus, whose notes upon the four Evangelists, and the whole New Testament, are in the Greek Criticks, tom. 6, & 7. as well as those of Grotius, and Sebastian Munster.
Zeger’s Scholia upon the whole New Testament, were put out separately at Cologn, in 1553, in 8vo. and in 1555, ibid. his Epanarthotes, Seu Restitutor locorum depravatorum in N. T. in 8vo.
What Drusius wrote upon the whole New Testament, was likewise printed separately, namely, Libri Praeteritorum 10. at Antwerp, in 1612, in 4to. The second Part of this Work ibid. in 1616, in 4to. His Comment upon the Hebrew Words, which are in the New Testament, at Antwerp, in 1582, in 4to. and at Franekar.
John Camero’s Myrathecium, or Prelections in Selectiora N. T. loca, is printed at Saumur, 1677, in 4to. the third Edition. James Capellus’s Observations with Lewis Capellus’s Spicilegium; at Amsterdam, in 1657, in 4to.
John Pricaeus’s Notes upon several Books of the New Testament, were printed at London, in 1660, in fol. We have already spoken of him. See his Title in the Index.
To these we may add Scultet, Piscator, Calovius, Hammond, Schmidt, Mede, Lightfoot, Valaeus, Gataker, and some others, of whom there are Extracts published in the Synopsis of the Criticks.
John Piscator’s Work is an Analysis, with Scholia, and Observations; printed at Herborne, in 1658, in fol. the fifth Edition. That of Abraham Calovius contains Illustrations of the New Testament, at Frankfort, in 1672, 1676, in fol. That of Henry Hammond is a Paraphrase and Notes in English, at London, in 1653. we have already taken notice, in another Place, of M. Le Clerc’s Notes upon Hammond, and of his French Comment upon the New Testament. See his Title in the Index.
What Erasmus Schmidt has put out on the New Testament, consists in a new Latin Version, and Notes; printed at Wittemburgh, 1662, in fol. the second Edition. Lightfoot’s Work is the same as his Harmony of the Gospels, whereof we have already said something; and his Horae Hebraicae, printed separately at London, in 1670, in 4to. the third Edition ; and at Lipsick, in 1675, in 4to. by the direction of Carpzovius.
Baldwin Valaeus wrote Comments only upon the Historical Books of the New Testament ; printed at Leyden, in 1652, in 4to. and at Amsterdam, in 1662, the third Edition.
Augustin Marlorat composed a Catena of twenty Protestant Authors, who have written upon the Gospels. We have already placed Marlorat among the Protestant general Commentators ; for he has explained almost all the Books of the Scripture. What he wrote in particular upon the New Testament, was printed at Geneva, in 1620, in fol. the eighth Edition ; and elsewhere. Thomas Timme translated his Performance upon the four Gospels into English ; at London, 1570, 1575, in 2 Vol. in fol. and 1583, in 4to.
Frederick Spanheim has given us several good Explanations of separate Passages of the Evangelists, in his Work intitled, Dubia Evangelia ; in two Volumes in 4to. Genev. 1658. There were two Frederick Spanheims, who both wrote upon the Scripture, the Father and the Son, both Calvinists : the Father was a German ; and died in 1649. the Son was of Geneva ; and died in 1701. He published, among others, an Examination of some controverted Places of the New Testament ; at Heidelberg, 1669. and at Leyden, in 1685, in 4to. afterwards in the Collection of his Works.
Daniel Heinsius has written Exercitationes in Novum Testamentum, & Aristarchus Sacer ; wherein are many good Things upon the New Testament. His Exercitations were printed at Leyden, in 1639, in 4to. and at Cambridge, in 1640, in fol. They are divided into twenty Books, with Prolegomena ; wherein he clears the sacred Text, examines the Passages from the Fathers, and the ancient and modern Explanations. He has also written an Apology for it in answer to the Calumnies of Croius ; wherein he treats of the Style, Phrases, and Divisions of the New Testament : at Leyden, 1646, in 12mo. His Aristarchus Sacer contains Exercitations upon Nonnus’s Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel, in two Parts. In the first he examines all that this Interpreter says ; in the second he compares his Explanations with the Words of the Evangelists : in both he clears several Places of the Gospel ; ibid. 1627, in 8vo. and with his Exercitations, ibid. 1639, in fol. He was a Fleming of Ghent, but a Calvinist; and Professor of History at Leyden. He died in 1655.
To these may be added Lewis de Dieu, John Doughtæus, Daniel Brenius, Stunica, Rodolphus Gautier, Daniel Toussaint, John Cocceius, and Lambert Bos; without