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Bibliotheca Sacra · The Fifth and Last Part

Article XL. Treatises and Dissertations upon the Epistle to the Colossians.

SEE the Prefaces on this Epistle, of both Catholicks and Protestants.

Henry Frierenberg has a Dissertation on these Words, Colos. 3. 2. Non est Barbarus, neque Scytha. He was a German Lutheran; and his Piece is in the second Tome of Philological Dissertations. John Andrew Quenstedt has also Disputations upon this Epistle; printed at Wittemberg, 1664, in 4to. See above. The first is upon chap. 3. ver. 11. and had been before printed at Wittemberg, in 1664, in 4to.

Adrian Reland made one upon the same Verse, wherein he explains what we are to understand by Barbarian and Scythian; in tom. 5. of the Biblioth. Philolog. p. 253. Theodore Hascus has one upon the same Subject, ibid. p. 270. where we find likewise a Letter by Conrad Piken, upon this Subject; p. 76, 77, and 99.

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