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Bibliotheca Sacra · The Fifth and Last Part

Article LV. Commentators upon the Epistle of St. James.

GRegory of Rimini is said to have written upon this Epistle, if he has, his Work has not been printed. F. le Long refers to Sixtus of Siena, who speaks only of what he wrote upon St. Paul’s Epistles.

Lipenius takes no notice of it in his Bibliotheca Theologica, at the Article of St. James.

Balthazar Paez has a Comment which was printed at Lyons, 1620, in 4to. the third Edition; and with his other Comments printed at Paris, 1630, in fol. He was of Lisbon, a Trinitarian; and died in 1636.

That of Francis Feuardent, was printed at Paris, 1599, in 8vo. See above; or his Title in the Index. That of Peter Stevart, ibid. 1610, in 4to. See upon St. Paul. De Quiros, with his other Comments. See ibid.

Among the Protestants, James Laurentius, a Calvinist, and Minister of Amsterdam, wrote a continued Comment; printed at Amsterdam, 1662, in 4to. the second Edition. He died in 1644.

Thomas Manton, an English Calvinist, made an English Exposition, with Notes; printed at Cambridge, 1657, in 4to.

David Rungius, of whom we have spoken upon the two Epistles to the Corinthians, made a Comment; which was printed at Wittemberg, in 1600, in 8vo.

Thomas Gataker is likewise ranked among those who have written upon this Epistle; but neither Lipenius, nor F. le Long, mention him.

Sebastian Schmid made a Paraphrase of the two first Chapters; printed at Strasburg, 1665, in 4to. and, moreover Analytical and Paraphrastical Disputations; ibid. 1699, in 4to.

Deyling. ad Jacobi 5. 16, 17. de efficacia precum, Observ. tom. 2. chap. 48.

Ejusdem de miraculosa ægrorum Sanatione per Oleum, Observ. tom. 3. chap. 48. ad Jacob. 5. 14.

Justus Christopher Schomer, of whom we have said something on St. Paul, made an Exegesis; which was printed at Rostock, 1701, in 4to. John Creidius, a Lutheran, of Wittemburg, who died in 1656, wrote an Explanation of this Epistle in German; printed at Frankfort, 1656, in 4to.

Francis Stancar, an Italian, and Physician to the Prince of Transilvania, put out an Explanation, with a Reconciliation of divers Passages in Scripture, in Italian; printed at Venice, 1547. and in Latin, by Thaddæus Dun, at Basil, 1547, in 8vo.

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