GOthofredus has made learned Ex- ercitations on the 15th and 16th Verses of the third Chapter of the first Epistle. They relate to the Church, and are written with a design to illustrate those Passages of St. Paul. They were printed at Geneva, 1649, in 4to. the second Edition; and are in the Great Criticks, tom. 7.
He has also written a Dissertation upon the Obligation which Women were under to be vailed in the Church; ibid. 1654, in 4to. He was of Geneva, a Calvinist; and died in 1652.
See likewise Christ. Theoph. Saver, Observata in loca quædam 1 Timoth. The Impression of these Observations is taken notice of above.
Michael. Langii de Genealogiis nunquam finiendis, 1 Tim. 1. 4. The Edition is mentioned upon the first to the Thessalonians.
Emmanuel. Webber, ad 1 Tim. 3. 15. Ut scias quomodo oporteat te in domo Dei conversari, quæ est in ecclesia Dei. He has also treated of the Subscription to this Epistle. Both Works printed at Lipsick, 1686, in 4to. and in the second Tome of Philological Dissertations. He was a German Lutheran.
Salom. Deylingii de eodem argumento, Obser. Sacr. tom. 1.
Benedicti Picteti, & Georg. Henrici Goezii, de magno pietatis mysterio, ad 1 Tim. 3. 20. There are four Dissertations written by Pictet upon this Subject, printed at Geneva, 1690, in 4to. and in tom. 11. of the Great London Criticks, p. 665. of the last Edition. He was a Calvinist of Geneva; born in 1655. made Minister in 1678. and Professor in 1686. The Catalogue of his Works is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 4. p. 300, 304. That of Henry Goeze is also in this Volume, p. 660.
Andreæ Bosii de juvenilibus cupiditatibus, 2 Tim. 2. 22. See upon the Acts, what we say of this Author.
Deylingii in 2 Tim. 4. 6, 7. Ego enim jam delibor, Observ. tom. 2. c. 46.
Hector. Gothofr. Masii de pallio Pauli, 2 Tim. 4. 13. This is in the second Tome of Philological Dissertations. He has also others, whereof we shall take notice; and of the Author himself, in another Place.
Paul Bauldry of Iberville, a Native of Rohan, but a Calvinist, and Professor of sacred History at Utrecht, who died in 1706. wrote a Letter upon ver. 16. of chap. 3. of the first Epistle, which relates to the great Mystery of the Church; produced, or mentioned in the Bibliotheque of new Books, printed at Utrecht, 1702, in 8vo. for May, and June. We find ibid. and in the same Months of the Year 1699, a Letter upon the same Subject, from a Dutchman, a Calvinist, and Minister, who concealed himself under the name of Philalethes, or a Friend to Truth.
Frederick Christopher Neubour has a Dissertation upon the profane Fables, and bodily Exercise, mentioned in St. Paul’s first Epistle to Timothy, chap. 4. ver. 7, and 8. It is in tom. 2. of the Bibliotheca Philologica, p. 113. Herein he confutes those who explain this Passage as if it were a Prohibition of Marriage, and meant only a purely spiritual Exercise. He also made Philological Notes upon several Places of the New Testament, which are in the first Tome of the same Bibliotheque, p. 113. Part the third. He was a Lutheran, one of the Council of War to the King of Great- Britain, in the Electorat of Brunswick and Lunenburg.
See likewise the Life of Timothy in Witsius’s Exercitations, printed at Utrecht, 1714.