AMong the Protestants, some have written upon the first, others upon the second Epistle, and others again upon both.
Abraham Schultet, with what he wrote upon the two following Epistles; printed at Frankfort, 1624, in 4to. and at Wittemberg, 1630. And Sebastian Schmid has paraphrased the first among his other Works.
Lambert Danæus, his Comment on the first Epistle was printed at Geneva, 1581, in 8vo. John Gerhard, at Jena, 1666, in 4to. the second Edition. We have already spoken of him.
David Chytræus made Scholia, and an Enarration on the same; printed at Frankfort, 1569, in 8vo. We have spoken of him elsewhere.
Gaspar Cruciger wrote a Comment upon the same; printed at Strasburg, 1540, in 8vo. and other Comments, which we shall speak of in another Place. He was of Lipsick, a Lutheran, and died in 1548.
Antony Faye has also made a Comment, which was printed at Geneva, 1609, in 8vo. and others besides. He was a Calvinist, Minister at Geneva, and died in 1616.
That of Constantine Phrygio, is with his Comment upon Leviticus. See upon this Book, where we have spoken of him.
Christopher Theophrastus Saver, a German Lutheran, made Observations upon some Places of this Epistle, which are in the second Tome of Philological Dissertations.
Kilian Venator, of the same Country and Religion, made an Explanation in German; printed at Isleben, 1570, in 8vo. if we believe Hunnius, in his Thesaurus Theologicus. John Henry Fausking, a Lutheran of Kimberg, has explain’d the second Epistle.
Alexander Alesius, above-mentioned, wrote a Disputation upon both the Epistles; cles; printed at Lipsick, in 1550, 1551, in two Volumes in 8vo. Peter Artopæus, of Pomerania, a Lutheran, and Minister at Stetin, in 1554, made Scholia; printed at Basil, 1546. the second Edition, in 8vo. George Christopher Dybrad, a Danish Lutheran, has a Comment printed at Copenhagen, in 1599, in 8vo. under the Title of Speculum Sacerdotii. He died in 1607. Matthias Nethen, a Calvinist, and Minister at Herborn, put out a Disputation upon these two Epistles; printed at Utrecht, 1655, in 4to.