SEE our Dissertation, or Preface, on St. Matthew. See likewise the Commentators.
St. Jerom, in his Epistle to Hedibia, a Roman Lady, tom. 4. p. 168. nov. Edit. answers twelve Questions proposed to him on St. Matthew, and other Places of Scripture ; and, in his Epistle to Aglasia, resolves eleven other Questions of the same nature.
John James Ulrick, or Huldrick, put out his Exercitium Biblicum upon all St. Matthew, at Zurich, 1713, 1714. in two Volumes in 8vo. He was born at Zurich, in 1683. was made a Calvinist Minister in 1703. Professor in 1710. and is, perhaps, still living. See the Catalogue of his other Works in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 2. p. 302.
The Dissertation of Rodolphus Martin, wherein he examines whether St. Matthew wrote in Greek and Latin, or in Hebrew ; printed at Altorf, in 1696, in 4to. He was of Brandenburg, a Lutheran ; and died in 1680.
Daniel Lagus, a German Lutheran likewise, and Professor at Grypswald, wrote three Disputations upon St. Matthew ; printed at Grypswald, in 1654, in 4to. He died in 1678.
David Schram, a Lutheran of Augsburg, who lived in the beginning of the 16th Century, wrote a Book in 8vo. at Giessen, in 1617. wherein he proves that St. Matthew is the first of the Evangelists ; that is to say, the first that wrote the Holy Gospel.
Isaac Faustus wrote a Disputation upon the Inscription of St. Matthew’s Gospel. It was printed at Strasburg, in 1677, in 4to. We shall speak of it again among the Dissertations upon the Epistle to the Romans. Upon the Genealogy and Birth of Jesus Christ.
In the Opuscula of M. de Marca, put out by M. Baluze, at Paris, in 1681, in 8vo. There is a Latin Dissertation on the Genealogy of Jesus Christ, related by St. Matthew and St. Luke, whom he reconciles by shewing that Joseph might have descended from Jacob, the Son of Matthan, and from Eli ; that the one was his Father, according to the order of Nature ; this was *Eli *: the other according to the order of the Law ; and this was Jacob.
Francis Sixtus, of Naples, a Carmelite, who died in 1569, had before written on the same subject ; and printed his Work at Venice, in 1564, in 4to.
John Peter Grunemberg, a German Lutheran, and Minister-General at Rostock, who died in 1706, has treated of St. Matthew’s Fidelity in relating the Genealogy of our Saviour ; This was printed at Rostock, in 1701, in 4to.
John Henry Lentz made likewise a Dissertation upon the Genealogy of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew ; printed at the same Place, in 1704, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and lived in the beginning of this Century.
Paul Slevogt, of Saxony, a Lutheran, and Professor of the Oriental Languages at Jena. What he composed upon this Genealogy of Jesus Christ, was printed in 1644, in 4to. Charles Link, who too was a German Lutheran, has treated on the same matter ; his Performance was published at Friburg, in 1648, in 12mo.
M. le Noble had a Chronological Dissertation ; printed at Paris, in 1693, in 12mo. upon the Birth of our Saviour. In it he falls particularly upon the Sieur Morin, who imagined that he could prove the true Year of our Saviour’s Birth, by casting his Nativity. He endeavours, afterwards, to fix the true Epoch of Christ’s Birth.
John Balthazar Schuppe, who was of Giessen, a Lutheran Minister at Hamburg, and died in 1660. put out a Book intitled, the Christian Deucalion. It is a Dissertation upon the true Day of our Saviour’s Birth ; printed at Marpurg, 1638, in 4to.
Peter Allix, a Calvinist, wrote also a Latin Dissertation concerning the Year and Month of Jesus Christ’s Birth ; printed at London, 1710, in 8vo. It is divided into 16 Chapters, and is a very learned Piece.
Upon Joseph, and the three wise Men.
See our Dissertation upon Joseph, printed in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 3. p. 596. our Dissertation on the wise Men in St. Matthew ; and in the same Collection, tom. 3.
Alph. de Mendoza, de Magorum Historia. It is in the Quæstiones Quodlibeticæ that Mendoza examines whether the whole History of the Magi was transacted in thirteen Days after the Birth of Jesus Christ; printed at Salamanca in 1588. and at Cologn, 1603, in 4to. He was a Spaniard, of the Order of St. Augustin; Almoner to Philip II. King of Spain, appointed Archbishop of Granada; and died in 1591.
Frederic. Spanheim, in Dubiis Evangel. Parte 2. Dub. 18, 19, 20, & seq.
Balt. Stolberg de Magis, Thes. Theol. Stolbergius’s Book is an Answer to Clemmius; printed separately at Wittemberg, in 1673, in 4to.
Dan. Roden de iisdem, ibid. His Dissertation is in the second Tome of the Philological Dissertations. He was a German Lutheran.
Stephani Salasar Hispani Minoritæ, de adventu Magorum. This is a Comment particularly on the second Chapter of St. Matthew, in order to explain the History of the Magi. With it he has join’d moral Observations, and the Genealogy of Jesus Christ; printed at Lyons, in 1584, in 8vo. He was of Granada; was first an Augustinian Hermit; and, at the age of 38, took the Habit of a Carthusian, as Nicholas Antonio says in his new Bibliotheca Hispanica. He died in 1596.
Leichnerus, de tempore Magorum, apud Crenium, Fascic. 10. He was a German Lutheran. His Comment was printed separately at Wirtzburg, 1600, in 4to. M. Du Pin calls him Leicher, and reckons him among the Calvinists.
Joan. Frischmuth Harmonia ad Micheæ 5. ver. 1. & Matthæi 2. ver. 6. printed at Jena, in 1662, in 4to. Frederick Spanheim on the same Chapter, in his Dubia Evangelica, Part 2. Dub. 46.
Giles Hochmuth, a German Lutheran, has written in general upon the Magi; printed at Lipsick, 1686, in 4to. Christian Notnagel, of the same Country and Religion, has treated on the same Subject in a Book which was published at Wittemberg, in 1652, in 4to.
John Olearius, the Father, who was of Hall in Saxony, a Lutheran Minister, and died in 1684. put out seven Dissertations upon the History of the Magi; at Lipsick, 1671, in 4to.
Haquin Stridzberg, a Danish Lutheran, and Professor at Copenhagen, wrote upon the same Subject; printed at Lunden in Schonen, 1684, in 4to.
James Frederick Issel made a particular Dissertation upon the Dominion of the Magi in Persia; printed at Basil in Switzerland, 1707. He was himself of Basil; where he was born in 1681. He began a Poem against the French, in 1696. which was the 15th year of his age. See the Catalogue of his Works in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 3. p. 313, 322.
Cæso Grammius’s Exercitatio de Stella Regis Judæorum; printed at Kiel, 1670, in 4to. We have already spoken of him upon Genesis. See upon Lot. He was a German Lutheran; a Physician, and *Greek-*Professor at Kiel. He died in 1673.
Another German Lutheran, whose Name is Frederick Madevisius, wrote a physical Dissertation upon the Star which conducted the Magi; printed at Kiel, 1670, in 4to. As also did Joachim Resenave, Lutheran Professor at Grypswald. His Work was printed at Grypswald, in 1657, in 4to. We must join Samuel Werner with him, whose Book was printed at Koningsburg, 1681, in 4to.
In M. de Marca’s Opuscula, above-mentioned, there is likewise a Discourse upon the wise Men: wherein he clears three Difficulties, which frequently occur concerning them; namely, whether they really were Kings, whether they came from Arabia or Persia, and whether they worshipped Jesus Christ in a Stable. As to the two first Particulars, he follows and confirms the common Opinion; but for the third, he believes these Kings did not worship Jesus Christ in the Stable, because, says he, it is probable, that after his Birth, Joseph and Mary retir’d to some private House, which was more convenient than the Stable. In reality St. Matthew says, that they entred in Domum, and not in Stabulum; as he says of the Shepherds. This learned Prelate was of Bearn: after having shined in the Robe, he betook himself to the Clergy, was made Bishop of Conserens, Archbishop of Toulouse and Paris almost successively; and died in 1662. He is known by a great number of Works, both ecclesiastical and historical.
Philip Busquier is almost the only one who has treated of the wise Men’s Presents to the Infant Jesus. His Book is printed at Antwerp, 1608. and Cologn, 1611, in 8vo.
Upon St. John the Baptist, and the Baptism of Jesus Christ; the Kingdom of Heaven; and the ancient way of wearing Shoes and Stockings.
Joan. Ernesti Butner, Disquisitiones in Historiam Joan. filii Zachariæ, Cren. Fasc. 4. printed at Jena, 1670, in 4to. and in the Thesaur. Dissert. Philolog. t. 2. p. 285. He was a German, and a Minister about 1670. F. le Long calls him Bunher, and Buttner.
Augustini Varenii, de columba super capite Christi visa; Thes. Phil. It was also printed at Rostock, 1671, in 4to. We have already taken notice of his Works, and shall again.
Frederic. Spanheim Dub. Evang. Parte 3. Dub. 46, 47.
Salom. Deylingii de Joannis Baptistæ Natalibus, Educatione, &c. Observat. tom. 3. c. 26.
Balth. Stolberg, de amictu & victu Joannis Baptistæ; Thes. Th.
Stolbergius’s Dissertation was printed separately at Wittemberg, 1673, in 4to.
Conradi Oldii de domicilio, victu, & amictu Joannis, apud Cren. Fasce 3. at Rostock, 1657, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, who flourished in 1657.
Fred. Spanheim de eodem, Dub. Evang. Parte 2. Dub. 98.
De Regno Cælorum, Spanheim, Parte 1. Dub. Evang. 14, 15. Here he speaks of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Beatitudes mentioned in St. Matthew.
Joan. Adami Koenig, de ritu portandi Calceos; Thes. Th.
See the Authors who have written de Calceo antiquo; as, Bened. Balduinus, and Bynæus, de Calceis Hebræorum. We mention them in a particular Article upon the Habits, &c. of the old Hebrews.
Georg. Gaspar Kirchmaier has written concerning the Dress, and Diet of John the Baptist; printed at Wittemberg, 1684, in 4to. We have said something of him upon the Old Testament. Otho Burchard Prember has also written on what St. Matthew says of this Forerunner of our Saviour: It was published at the same Place, 1682, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran. We may add Paul Rabe, of the same Nation and Religion, who has several Exercitations upon St. John’s Dress and Diet; printed at Koningsburg, 1693, 1694, in 4to.
John Henry Haner, a German Lutheran, wrote a Dissertation upon the Voice from Heaven, saying, during the Baptism of Jesus Christ, This is my beloved Son. It is printed in the second Tome of the Philological Dissertations.
Jerom Kromayer has made one upon the Baptism of Jesus Christ; printed at Lipsick, 1672, in 4to. We shall speak of him hereafter. See his Title in the Index.
Upon the Sin against the Holy Ghost, and against our Brother.
Upon this Subject see S. Jerom ad Marcellam, tom. 4. p. 164. of the new Edition. See likewise Origen and Theognostus, in the Account given of them by St. Athanasius, who treats expressly of this Matter; Epist. 4. ad Serapionem, Num. 8, 9, 10, &c.
See our Dissertation on the same Subject before our Comment on St. Mark, and the Authors there cited by us. It is in the Collection of our Dissertations, t. 3. p. 380.
John Bugenhagius, a Lutheran of Pomerania, has written a Book expressly on this Subject.
Nicholas Faber, or le Fevre, de peccato in fratrem, in the 18th Chapter of St. Matthew. This is in his Opuscula; printed at Paris, 1614, in 4to. and in the Great Criticks, tom. 7. of the new Edition; with which he has written upon the Drink given to our Saviour on the Cross. He was of Paris, a Lawyer, and Præceptor to Lewis XIII. He understood Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. He died in 1612.
Upon Corban, the Numisma Censûs, and the wicked Servant.
Greg. Frid. Meinhardt Corban. Matt. 15. 5. Marc. 7. 11. This Dissertation is in the second Tome of the Philological Dissertations. We have spoken of him, and his other Dissertations, upon Numbers, and Jeremiah. It was printed separately at Wittemberg, in 1678, in 4to.
Ludovici Capelli Corban, in the large Criticks, tom. 6. p. 454. of the first Edition. Stolbergius likewise, if we believe Lipenius, wrote a philosophical Exercitation upon Corban; printed at Wittemberg, in 4to. He does not say in what Year.
Nicol. Schulini, de Numismate Censûs, ad Matt. 22. 19. Marc. 12. in the Thesaurus of Philological Dissertations, tom. 2. Lipenius calls him Nicholas Schulz. He was a German Lutheran.
Marquard. Freberus, de eodem, in Criticis Magn. This is a theological and historical Treatise; printed at Heidelberg, 1599, in 4to. with Cuts. He was a German of Augsburg, a Lutheran; and died in 1614.
Gothofr. Preussius in hæc verba, Servum nequam dividet, Mat. 24. 31. printed at Wittemberg, 1684, in 4to. with the Title of Δικοτομία. He was a German Lutheran.
John George Scheltrorne has likewise treated of the same in the Biblioth. Philolog. p. 4.
Upon the Sermon in the Mount, and Temptation in the Wilderness.
You may see, if you please, what St. Austin has written of the Sermon in the Mount; and what we have said of this Father’s Work in the first Article of this Part.
Spanheim has also treated of it in his Dubia Evangelica, Part 1. Dub. 78, &c.
Salom. Deylingii de Christi tentationis Historia, in his Sacred Observations, t. 2. c. 27.
John Deutschman wrote likewise a Dissertation on our Saviour’s three Temptations; printed at Wittemberg, in 1679, in 4to. Upon the manner of compelling one to go any distance, and upon vain Repetitions of Prayers.
Balthazar Stolbergius de Angariis veterum, upon St. Matthew, chap. 5. ver. 41. at Wittemberg, in 1680, in 4to. This is an Answer by him to Abraham Calovius, on the same Subject. He wrote likewise de Battologia Precum, in St. Matthew, chap. 6. ver. 7. printed in 1679, in 4to. Another Answer by him to Barthius, upon the too great multiplicity of Prayers.
Frederick Christopher Neubour has also treated of the same: It is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 2. p. 613, to 640. His Dissertation contains only four Articles. Theodore Hasæus, the Author of this Bibliotheca, has added an Appendix to this Dissertation on the same Subject. Deylingius has likewise spoken of it in his Observ. Sacr. tom. 3. chap. 27.
Upon the Term daily Bread, and other Subjects.
Joan. Philip. Pfeiffer de voce ἐπιούσιος, Panem nostrum quotidianum, in St. Matthew, chap. 6. ver. 11. in the Thesaur. Philolog. and separately at Koningsberg, in 1680, in 4to. Balthazar Stolbergius upon the same Subject, in the same Thesaurus; and separately at Wittemberg, in 1685, in 4to.
Salom. Deylingii de duplici Publicanorum ordine, ad Matth. 9. ver. 10. in his Sacred Observations, tom. 1. The same, de Sapientia à Liberis justificata in S. Matthew, chap. 11. ver. 19. ibid.
Stolbergius has also treated of it; his Piece was printed at Wittemberg, in 1679, in 4to. of the Herodians, ibid. in 1664, in 4to. He was a German of Misnia, Professor of the Greek Tongue at Wittemberg; and died in 1684.
Joan. Adamii Koenig de Regina Austri, in S. Matthew, cap. 12. ver. 42. at Wittemberg, in 1677, in 4to.
Upon the Rock of the Church, and Hosanna.
John Deutschman de Petra Ecclesiæ, upon chap. 16. ver. 18. of St. Matthew, in the 11th Tome of the Great Criticks, of the new Edition, p. 150. This Dissertation is divided into two Sections: the first whereof contains two Chapters, wherein he produces the different Versions of the Passages, and gives an Explanation or Analysis of them; in the second he has philological and theological Questions on the same Subject. We speak of his other Dissertations lower. See upon the Passion.
Dan. Wintzern de Acclamatione Hosannæ, on chap. 21. ver. 9. printed at Lipsick, in 1677, in 4to. Lipenius takes notice of a Dissertation by Thomas Malvenda, on the same Subject; but he does not say when, and where, it was printed.
Upon the whited Sepulchres, Tithes, and the Sign of the Son of Man.
Salom. Deylingius in Matth. 23. ver. 23. de Olerum Decimatione, in his Sacred Observations; Obser. 28. t. 3.
Joan. Christ. Rosteuscherus de Sepulchris calce notatis, Matth. 23. ver. 27. printed at Wittemberg, in 1679, in 4to. and in the 2d Tome of Philological Dissertations. He was a German, and Lutheran Minister at Dantzick.
Joan. Philipp. Pfeiffer de Signo Filii Hominis, Matth. 24. ver. 30. at Koningsburg, in 1682, in 4to. We have already spoken of him upon Lamech : See Genesis. He was a German Lutheran, Professor, and Preacher.
Christian Klem has likewise written upon the Sign of the Son of Man; for Pfeiffer replies to him in his Disputation on this Subject, as Lipenius takes notice in the second Tome of his Bibliotheca Theologica.
With these we may join Fred. Bechmann, whose Dissertation is printed at Jena, in 1681, in 4to. James Schultet, at Lipsick, in 1625, in 4to. Francis Woergius, at Kiel, in 1679, in 4to.
Upon the Obsessions and Possessions of the Devil.
See Deyling in his Sacred Observations, tom. 2. chap. 28. and our new Dissertation on this Subject, tom. 1. p. 593. of our Dissertations printed separately. Here we attack certain Unbelievers or Philosophers, who have the art to reconcile a seeming Reverence for the Scriptures, with a rash Liberty of giving such a turn to them as is agreeable to their particular Ideas; and who, if you would take their word for it, are so far from designing any prejudice to Religion, that they imagine they are doing an essential Service to it, by freeing it from Opinions that are vain, superstitious, and erroneous.
Upon our Saviour's Parables in St. Matthew.
Valerii Greissingii Sal infatuatum, in St. Matthew, chap. 5. ver. 13. printed at Wit - Wittemberg, in 1677, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran. Spanheim speaks likewise of it in Dubia Evangelica, Part 3. Dub. 91, 92, 93.
Joan. Phil. Pfeiffer de Proverbio, Facilius est Camelum, &c. Mat. 19. 24. at Koningsberg, 1679, in 4to. and in the Great Criticks of the new Edition, tom. 2. p. 150.
Joan. Sommerin. de eodem; in the same Tome of the Great Criticks.
Augusti Titelii de Camelo per foramen acûs transeunte, Miscell. Lips.
John James Festen has a philological Exercitation on the same Subject, in answer to Kirchner; at Wittemberg, 1677, in 4to.
James Wolfius has treated of the Camel compared to rich Men; printed at Grypswald, in 1706, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran.
Christian Hoffman, Ficus Arbor. philologicè considerata. This he had printed at Jena, in 1670, in 4to.
John Simon, another Lutheran, has also written of it. His Book was printed at Frankfort upon the Oder, 1680, in 4to.
John Henry May, whose Harmony of the Gospel has been mentioned by us, has discoursed upon the Iota and Apex spoken of in St. Matthew, chap. 5. ver. 18. His Piece was printed at Giessen, in 1692, in 4to.
Upon the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, and the Custom of washing Hands.
Christoph. Sountagii, Observationes Miscellaneæ in historiam de Transfiguratione Domini. They were printed at Altorf, 1695, in 4to. We have already said something of him upon the Old Testament. He was a German Lutheran, and Professor of the Oriental Languages. He died in 1717.
Joan. Buxtorf. Differt. de lotione Manuum Judaica ante & post Cibum, among his Philological and Theological Dissertations, in 8vo. at Basil, in 1707. Joan. Adam Koënig de ritu lavandi Manus, ad Matth. 15. ver. 2. at Wittemberg, 1678, in 4to. and in the Thes. Dissert. Philol. tom. 2.
Upon the Abomination of Desolation, and the Unction at Bethany.
Gerard Outhove wrote a Dissertation to prove that the Abomination of Desolation in the holy Place, mentioned in the 24th chapter, ver. 15, 16. of St. Matthew, should be understood of the Roman Army, which laid the Land waste; and is spoken of by Daniel, chap. 12. ver. 11. It is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 3. p. 625, 661. Frederick Lampe made one likewise upon the same Subject; which is to be found in the same Tome, p. 990, 1036.
Georg. Henr. Gotz, de unctura Christi Bethanica, upon St. Matthew, chap. 26. ver. 6, 7. at Lipsick, 1687, in 4to. We shall speak of another Work lower.
John Nicholas Graberg wrote likewise a Dissertation on this Unction, which is in the Thesaur. Dissert. Philol. He was a German Lutheran.
Upon our Saviour's last Passover.
This is a particular Point in the Gospel which has been very much debated among the Learned of our time; and consists in knowing whether Jesus Christ kept the Passover at the same time as the Jews, or before them. Every one has hereupon his peculiar Opinion; which they have endeavoured to defend with Arguments, that, to them, seemed convincing. We have already touched upon it a little upon Exodus, while we were speaking of the legal Passover; which was no more than a Figure of that, to be observed afterwards, under the new Law.
See Saubert, and John Frischmuth, at Jena, in 1674, in 4to. and in the Thesaurus of Philological Dissertations. Paul of Burgos, Lewis of Leon, in his System of the Passover, with Remarks by F. Daniel; at Paris, in 1695, in 12mo. M. Toinard, in his Harmony mentioned by us in the first Article of this Part. M. de Tillemont, in his Letter and Answer to F. Lamy, of the Oratory, at the end of the first and second Volume of his Ecclesiastical History. F. Lamy, in his Harmony. F. Hardouin, who has a Treatise expressly on this Subject; and our Comment and Dissertations. F. Bessin, a Benedictine, in his Reflections on F. Lamy’s new System; printed at Roan, in 1697, in 12mo. F. Mauduit, in his Dissertations at the end of his Analysis of the Gospels. John Cloppenburg, and others in great number, without reckoning the Commentators.
To these we may add F. Vanni’s Dissertation; printed in Latin at Rome, in 1705, in 4to. Adam Heroldt, a Lutheran Author of Germany, who has treated likewise of this last Passover; his Piece was printed at Wittemberg, in 1682, in 4to.
Faés, a Protestant Author, in his Treatise on the last Supper, printed at Bremen, in 1693, in 8vo. examines another Point which is pretty particular. It consists in knowing whether Jesus Christ eat his own Body, and drank his own Blood, as the Authors of Liturgies, many of the Fathers, the School- Divines, and even some Protestants, have believed. He pretends to prove the contrary; 1. By the Silence of the Evangelists, who do not tell us that Jesus Christ took consecrated Bread and Wine. 2. By the Nature of Testaments, which are never made in favour of the Testators. 3. From the end of the Communion, and its Effects, which consist in uniting those, who partake of this Sacrament, in supporting their Faith, animating their Charity, blotting out their Sins, and in giving them the Earnest of a pious Death, a glorious Resurrection, and a happy Immortality: all these Effects, says he, which our Saviour had no need of to form the most convincing proof, that he did not eat his own Body, or drink his own Blood. He then proceeds to answer the Reasons of the Holy Fathers, and of the Authors, as well Catholick as Protestant, whom he attacks.
Upon the Passion of our Saviour, and all the Circumstances of it.
Frederic. Gotthelf, de Conjugis Pilati Somnio. This Dissertation was printed at Jena, in 1705, in 4to. He was a German of Altemburg, and a Lutheran.
Charles Gotsch, who made a Discourse upon the Crown of Thorns, printed at Altorf, 1694, in 4to. was of the same Country and Religion. This, perhaps, is the Goetze whom we have mentioned.
Georg. Schwardzen, de pretio quo Salvator noster æstimatus est, ad Matt. 27. 9, 10. printed at Wittemberg, 1674, in 4to. and in the second Tome of Philological Dissertations. He was a Lutheran, and Minister in Pomerania.
Salom. Deylingii, de eodem argumento; tom. 1. Observ. Sacr.
Georg. Jer. Hoffmanni de processus Synedrii adversus Christum ad Judæorum leges exacti Anomalia, ad Matt. 27. This too is in the second Tome of Philol. Dissert. The Author was a German Lutheran.
Joan. Ernest. Mulleri Dissertatio de Spinis Coronæ Christi; printed separately at Lipsick 1688, in 4to. Another Muller, John George, made a Dissertation upon Proselytes, printed at Wittemberg, 1672. in 4to. A third, John, wrote a Question concerning the History of the Magi, and the Writings of St. Matthew; printed at Zurich, 1660, in 4to. A fourth, Henry, put out Theological, Historical, and Critical Notes upon the Passion, Crucifixion, and Burial of Jesus Christ; printed at Rostock, 1661, in 4to. and 1667, in 4to. with Augmentations; printed at Lipsick, in German, 1679, in 8vo. A fifth, Andrew, has written upon the Eclipse which happened at the Passion; printed at Berlin, 1655, in fol. He was of Pomerania; a Lutheran Minister of Berlin. He died in 1694. The four other were German Lutherans. Thomæ Bartolini, de Cruce, ubi de Vino Myrrhato, de Corona Spinea, de Sudore Christi Sanguineo; printed at Copenhagen, 1651, in 12mo, at Amsterdam and Wesel, in 1670, 1673. He added a Dissertation, de Latere Christi aperto; printed at Leyden, 1646. and at Frankfort, 1686. He was a Dane, of Copenhagen, a Lutheran, and a Physician: He died in 1680.
Georgii Mæbii, de Crucis Supplicio, Thes. Theol. This is among his Select Dissertations printed at Lipsick, in 1694, in 4to. and had been before printed ibid. 1680, in 4to. We have spoken of him upon the Old Testament.
Sam. Reyberi, de Crucifixi Jesu Titulis, & Hora Crucifixionis, ibid. in the second Tome of Philological Dissertations; and separately at Kiel in 1694, in 4to. He was a German, a Lutheran, and Professor of Law at Kiel.
Godefridi Thilo, & Caroli Ortlob, de Sepulcro Christi. That of Thilo is in the same Tome, and had been before printed at Wittemberg, in 1675, in 4to. Thilo was a German Lutheran. We shall say more of him upon the Acts.
Ortlob’s Piece was printed at Wittemberg, in 1656, in 4to. He has also written concerning the mount of Olives, ibid. 1656, 4to. and of our Saviour’s Cross, ibid. 1655, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran.
Joan. Andr. Schmidt, de tumulo Salvatoris; Helmstad. 1703. printed in 4to. as well as his Dissertation upon the Earthquake which happen’d at the Passion; at Jena, 1683, in 4to. We have spoken of his Works upon the Old Testament.
Another Sebastian Schmid, mentioned by us ibid. has treated of the Sermon on the Mount, in a Dissertation printed at Strasburg, 1684, in 4to. He has a Disputation upon the Drachmas which our Saviour paid, ibid. 1663, in 4to. and another upon the Fig-tree which he cursed, ibid. 1662, in 4to.
Joan. Jac. Chifflet, de Linteis & Fasciis Sepulcralibus; at Antwerp, 1624, in 4to. Herein he treats of the several ways of Burying in use among the Jews. He was a Catholick, of Burgundy, a Knight, and principal Physician to Philip IV. King of Spain. He died in 1660.
Antony Bynæus may be consulted upon all the Circumstances of our Saviour’s Passion. He has treated of them at large. He has three Books upon the Death of Jesus Christ, as it is related by the four Evangelists; they are as it were a Concord: printed at Amsterdam, 1692, 1696, 1698. in three Volumes in 4to. He has treated likewise of our Saviour’s Burial; printed at Dort, 1688. the third Edition. He was a Fleming, a Calvinist; and flourished towards the end of the 17th Century.
Edmundi Merilli, Notæ Philologicæ in Passionem Christi, in 8vo. at Paris, 1632. and in 4to. at Helmstadt, 1657. He was of Troyes in Champagne; King’s Counsellor, and principal Antecessor in the University of Bourges. He died in 1647.
Joan. Jac. Wissenbachii Notæ nomicophilologicæ in Passionem Christi; printed at Franekar, 1643, in 8vo. Both Merille’s and Weissenbach’s Notes are in Crenius’s T. Fasciculus.
Frid. Ern. Kettneri de horis Passionis Christi, Miscel. Lips. tom. 4. He was a German, of Stolberg, a Lutheran, and Minister-General towards the end of the 17th Century.
There are abundance of Authors who have written on the Passion.
John Frederick Hekel, a German Lutheran, wrote Iter Christi trans torrentem Cedron; Cygneæ, in 4to. upon the purple Habit given our Saviour in derision; upon the Crown of Thorns, and the Reed; printed at the same Place, in 1673, and 1675, in two Volumes in 4to. Titulus Crucis Christi, Chemnitii Misnorum, 1675, in 4to. John Christopher Lobbern, a German Lutheran, has also treated of the Inscription on the Cross; at Altorf, 1616, in 4to.
Stephen Morinus has a Dissertation upon the Hours of the Passion; printed at Leyden, in 1686, in 8vo. We have already spoken of him upon the Maccabees. He was of Caën, a Calvinist, Professor of the Oriental Languages at Amsterdam; and died in 1700.
Christopher Feurtelius, a German Lutheran, has written of Bethphage; printed at Lipsick, in 1686, in 4to.
We have a learned Dissertation, by John James Freisleben, upon the Title of the Cross; printed at Jena, in 1664, in 4to. He was a Lutheran, Archdeacon of Altemberg; and died in 1657. So that his Work is posthumous, unless this is a second Edition; which is not said by any one.
Andrew Hoier, a German Lutheran, has treated of our Saviour’s last Words upon the Cross; printed at Dantzick, in 1623, in 4to.
John Hornbeck, a Dutch Calvinist, and Professor at Leyden, who died in 1666. exercised himself upon the last Passover, and the Crucifixion. His Pieces are in the first Book of the Miscellanea Sacra. They were printed at Utrecht, 1677, in 4to. We have already spoken of him upon the Old Testament.
John George Neuman, Lutheran Professor at Wittemberg, who died in 1709. put out a Dissertation upon the Sponge made use of for the Drink presented to Jesus Christ. It is in his Academical Dissertations, printed at Wittemberg, in 1700, in 8vo. He has also treated of our Saviour’s lying three Days in the Grave, and of his Descent into Hell, in his Programmata; printed at the same Place in 4to.
Augustus Pfeiffer, of whom we took notice upon the Old Testament, has treated of the Galilean Language whereby Peter was discovered. This was printed at Dresden, 1699, in 4to. And Andrew Quernstadt, mentioned in the same Place, has shewn his Learning in what he has written upon Jesus Christ’s Prayer in the Olive-Garden. It was printed at Wittemberg, 1675, in 4to.
Christian Robrensee, mentioned by us upon the Kings, in the Article relating to Goliath, has treated of the Custom of tearing their Clothes, with reference to the High- Priest who tore his at the time of the Passion; as is written in St. Matthew, chap. 26. ver. 65. This was printed at Wittemberg, 1668, in 4to. See his Title in the Index.
Christopher Schlogel, or Slagel, taken notice of by us upon Melchizedeck, wrote upon the Field of Blood which was purchased with thirty Pieces of Silver. This was printed at Hamburg, in 1673. the third Edition.
John Schmid has written concerning the Custom of delivering a Slave at the time of the Passover, referring to Barabbas, who was delivered at our Saviour’s Passion. This was published at Lipsick, in 1687, in 4to. He is different from another Schmid mentioned by us upon the Old Testament, and from a third. This too, of whom we have spoken above, was a German Lutheran, and Professor at Lipsick.
Enoch Swanten, a German Lutheran, wrote upon the Spear which pierced our Saviour’s Side. His Book was printed at Rostock, 1586, in 4to. And Christopher Tobias Wideburg, a German likewise, and Lutheran Professor at Helmstadt, made a Dissertation on the Darkness at Christ’s Passion; printed at Helmstadt, 1684, in 4to.
Gaspar Sagittarius, a German, who died in 1694. put out the History of the Passion, according to St. Matthew, with theological, philosophical, philological, and historical Observations; printed at Jena, in 1684, in 4to. He has treated likewise in particular of the scarlet Robe put on Jesus Christ in the way of derision, and of the Spear; which were printed at the same Place, in 1672, 1673. in two Volumes in 4to.
John Frederick Scharff wrote in particular of the Crucifixion, and put out in general the History of our Saviour’s Passion, who was both God and Man; printed at Wittemberg, in 1666, in 4to. and at Jena, 1676, in 4to. He too was a German Lutheran.
Upon Judas, Pilate, and the two Thieves.
William Klebitius, de Buccella intincta quam comedit Judas, in the Great Criticks, tom. 9. Separately at Frankfort, in 1675. and at Lipsick, in 1676, in 8vo. He was a German Lutheran.
Martin Kemp’s Dissertation upon the Kiss which Judas gave our Saviour in order to betray him into the Hands of the Jews, was printed at Frankfort, in 1680, in 4to. the third Edition, enlarged. He was a German Lutheran, and Historiographer to the Elector of Brandenburg. He died in 1682.
Georg. Goezii de suspendio Judæ. This Dissertation was printed at Jena, in 1661, in 4to. See upon St. Luke.
Jacobi Gronovii Exercitationes Academicæ pernicie & casu Judæ traditoris; printed at Leyden, 1683, in 4to. and in 1702, with the Defense against Perizonius. It may be proper to observe, that the Exercitations are by John Frederick Gronovius, the Father of James; and the Defense by this latter, who was his Son. Herein he proves that the Evangelists have explained themselves clearly concerning the Death of Judas; consequently, that his Father Gronovius endeavoured, with good reason, to reconcile what St. Matthew has said of it in his Gospel, with what St. Luke has written of it in the Acts.
We shall add here, with a regard to these two Works, that no tragical Subject was ever treated in a more pompous Style: It is a Declamation, the Eloquence whereof is so dazzling, that there is scarce any following of it; and so copious, that it makes a large Volume divided into twenty Chapters.
The Dissertation of James Perizonius, wherein he attacks Gronovius, was printed at Leyden, 1702, in 4to. He was a Dutch Calvinist, and Professor at Leyden. He died in 1715.
What William Goezius has written on this Subject, was printed at the Hague, in 1677, in 4to. and in 1681, the second Edition, in 4to.
Daniel Hartnac, a German Lutheran, made a Dissertation; printed at Lipsick, 1676, in 4to. wherein he confutes that of John Steller, who pretended to defend Pilate. He took the counterfeit Name of Maphanatus. Frederick Gotthelf Gotter has written a Dissertation on Pilate’s Wife’s Dream; printed at Jena, in 1705, in 4to. He was of Altemburg, a Lutheran.
See our Dissertation on the spurious Letter from Pilate to Tiberius, on the Subject of Jesus Christ’s Death, in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 3. p. 651.
Kiping, in his Michaelin Memoirs, speaks of a Treatise by John Michaelis upon the two Thieves, and Judas Iscariot.
In the eighth Tome of Select Observations printed at Hall, in 1704, in 12mo. there is one upon Paradise promised to the penitent Thief: It is the fourth. It is explained to mean the happy and peaceful State wherein the Souls of the Saints expected their Deliverance: For, say they, it is certain that the Soul of the penitent Thief did not enter into the Glory of Heaven on that very day, and before Jesus Christ had opened the way to it at his Ascension. But before he comes to this conclusion, the Author makes some learned Remarks on the Word Paradise. This is treated of very largely, as any one may see.
Upon those who rose from the Dead with Jesus Christ, and upon the Darkness at the Passion.
Tob. Winkler, de Bis Mortuis, in the Thesaur. Philolog. tom. 2. p. 979. that is to say, of those, who having risen from the Grave after the Death of our Saviour, died afterwards again.
John David Schwerdthner has likewise treated of the same in the Lipsick Miscellanies in 8vo. tom. 1. We have spoken of him in a Dissertation upon the Resurrection of the holy Fathers, who rose again with Jesus Christ; in the Collection of our Dissertations, tom. 3. and in another Dissertation on the Darkness which happen’d at the Death of Jesus Christ, ibid.
Andrew Kunadus wrote upon the Saints who rose from the Dead at the time of our Lord’s Passion: It was printed at Wittemberg, in 1654, in 4to.
John George Michaelis has an Exercitation on the Saints who rose again with Jesus Christ; wherein he says it is probable that they did not die a second time, but entred into Glory with him. It is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 3. p. 707, 733.
Frederick Lampe has joined three Questions with it, wherein he examines, 1. Who were the Saints that rose again? 2. Why St. Matthew joins this Miracle with that of the Earthquake? 3. What these Miracles represented; in the same Tome, p. 734. As to other Authors who have written on our Saviour’s Passion, see Lipenius, in his Biblioth. Theolog. tom. 3. under the Title Passion.
Upon several places of St. Matthew.
We have spoken above of Frederick Spanheim’s Dubia Evangelica.
Balthazar Stolberg began a philological Exercitation upon the Genealogy of Jesus Christ; printed at Wittemberg, in 1663, in 4to. as was what he wrote upon the Magi, ibid. 1673, in 4to. Of St. John Baptist’s Food, and Clothing, ibid. the same Year. Of the Custom of the Antients, de angariis, ibid. 1684, in 4to. Of the Word ἐπιούσιος, ibid. 1685, in 4to. Of Wisdom justified by her Children, ibid. 1679, in 4to. Of the Herodians, ibid. 1664, in 4to. He was a German of Misnia, a Lutheran, and Professor of the Greek Tongue at Wittemberg. He died in 1684.
The Harmony of John Frischmuth, which he wrote to reconcile the Prophet with the Evangelist, is printed at Jena, 1662, in 4to. Upon the Exclamation of Jesus Christ, when he said in his last Agonies, Eloi; ibid. 1663, in 4to. Upon the Price for which the Messiah was sold; ibid. 1672, in 4to. We have mentioned his other Dissertations on the Old Testament, and shall take farther notice of them hereafter.
Pfeiffer’s Dissertation upon the Word ἐπιούσιος, was printed at Montreal, 1680, in 4to. Upon the Proverb of the Camel, ibid. 1679. Upon the Sign of the Son of Man, ibid. 1682. We have already spoken of him upon Lamech. He was a German, a Lutheran, Professor and Preacher towards the end of the 17th Century.
Joan. Deutschman de Petra Ecclesiæ, Matt. 16. 18. This Dissertation was printed in the eleventh Tome of the great Criticks, of the new Edition, p. 150. It is divided into two Sections; the first contains two Chapters, wherein he produces the different Versions of the Passages, and gives an Explanation or Analysis of them; in the second he proposes philological and theological Questions on the same.
He has, moreover, treated of the three Temptations of Jesus Christ; printed at Wittemberg, 1679, in 4to. Of his Passion, ibid. 1678, in 4to. Of his Burial, ibid. 1661, in 4to. Of his Birth, ibid. 1674, in 4to. We have spoken of him, and mentioned what he has written upon the Old Testament.
Frederick Christopher Neubour has treated of the vain Repetitions used by the Heathens in their Prayers, to illustrate the 7th Verse of the 4th Chapter of St.
Matthew. This is in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 2. p. 613, 640. His Dissertation contains but four Articles. Theodore Hasæus, Author of this Bibliotheca, added an Appendix to this Dissertation on the same Subject.
Isebrand Arckenroth, or Harkenroth, has written a Dissertation upon Rachel, mentioned at the 18th Verse of the 11th Chapter of St. Matthew, in the Biblioth. Theolog. tom. 5. p. 1095.
He has another Topographical and Theological Dissertation upon the Mountain; whither Jesus Christ was transported by the Devil, and when he was transfigured; ibid. tom. 6. p. 969, 989. Theodore Hasæus has a Dissertation on the same Subject. ibid. 990, 1004.
John Outrein has written a Dissertation upon the Word Multi, chap. 8. ver. 2. Wherein he explains what we are to understand by those who shall come from the East, and from the West, &c. in the same Tome, p. 1071.
John Michaelis, different from him above mentioned, has treated of the use of Phylacteries, among the Jews; at Jena, 1604, in 4to. They were both German Lutherans: the first lived in the beginning of the 17th Century; the other died in 1686. and was of Rostock, Minister-General in the County of Oldemberg.
John Andrew Dantz, has also written of these Phylacteries, spoken of by St. Matthew, ver. 5. of the 25th Chapter. This Piece was printed at Wittemberg, in 1682, in 4to. Upon the Lex talionis, ver. 38, 39, of chap. 5. This Dissertation was printed at Jena, in 1700. Upon the Cure wrought on the Sabbath-day; at the same Place; 1699. We have said something of him upon Cain. See the Article Genesis.
The two Dissertations of Simon Frederick Frentzel, a German Lutheran, one upon the Star seen in the East by the Magi, the other upon the Crown of Thorns, were published at Wittemberg, 1677, and 1679. in two Volumes in 4to. He was a German Lutheran.
The Dissertation of George Henry Goetze, a German Lutheran, Minister at Lubeck, of whom we have said something above, is upon the Centurion, at the Passion, in chap. 27. printed 1698, in 4to. John Helvic Willemer, spoken of by us upon Kings, wrote upon the Sadducees and Essenians. This was printed at Wittemberg, in the Years 1680, and 1681, in two Volumes in 4to.
Henry Opicius, mentioned upon the Old Testament, has treated of the Pharisees, who are spoken of in chap. 23. ver. 33. of St. Matthew. This was printed at Kiel, in 1680. in what form is not said. See his Title in the Index.
John William Birchmaier, of whom we have taken notice upon Jonah, wrote upon daily Bread, and the Sepulcher of Jesus Christ; which was published at Wittemberg, in 1711, in two Volumes in 4to. And John Klug, a German Lutheran, has treated of our Saviour’s Fasting; printed at the same Place, 1678, in 4to.
Albert Joachim Kruckewits, a German Lutheran also, and Minister-General in Pomerania, wrote upon Mary’s anointing our Saviour, and the Passion of Jesus Christ; which was published at Rostock, and at Kiel, in 4to.
Sebastian Nieman, of Lubeck, a Lutheran, and Minister-General, who died in 1684. has also written upon Jesus Christ’s Fasting, and of the last Passover; printed at Kiel, 1663, and 1670. in two Volumes in 4to. John George Neuman, abovementioned, treated of the Lord’s Prayer; and printed what he wrote, at Wittemberg, 1708, in 4to. See his Title.
Isaac Laverbech, a German Lutheran, applied himself to write concerning the Years of Jesus Christ’s Ministry; which he printed at Altorf, in 1700, in 4to.
Andrew Kunade wrote upon the Temptation in the Wilderness; printed at Wittemburgh, 1653, in 4to. Of St. Peter’s Confession, at the same Place, 1662, in 4to. We shall say more of him upon the Epistle to the Galatians.
John Nicholas Roste, a German Lutheran likewise, has treated of the gay Robes of the Antients, mentioned in chap. 10. ver. 9. printed at Jena, 1681, in 4to.
Eberard Rodolphus Robt, of the Tephilims, or Ligatures which the Jews wear about their Heads and Arms, printed at the same Place in 1674, in 4to. He was of the same Nation and Religion.
John Frederick Mayer, taken notice of by us upon the Old Testament, has treated of those who were Instructors of Jesus Christ; at Gripswald, 1704, in 4to. Of the Lord’s Prayer, ibid. 1706, in 4to. Of Jesus Christ’s seven Words upon the Cross, ibid. the same Year. We shall speak of what he has written besides upon St. Luke and the Acts.
Daniel William Moller, of Hungary, a Lutheran, and Professor of History at Altorf, wrote a Dissertation upon the four Evangelists, upon the Adoration of the Magi, upon the Publicans, and upon the Pillar at which Christ was scourged; printed at Altorf, 1699, 1703. in four Volumes in 4to.
Adam Rechemberg has a Dissertation upon the Word ἔρημος, made use of by St. Matthew; printed at Lipsick, 1680, in 4to. Upon our Saviour’s Expression, that a Prophet has no Honour in his own Country; ibid. 1672, in 4to. Upon the Pharisees, ibid. 1679. Upon the Proverb used by Jesus Christ, in chap. 24. ver. 27, 28. ibid. 1696. We have already spoken of him upon Ezekiel, and shall say more of him upon the Acts.
George Wolfgang Wedel, in his Theological Exercitations, printed at Jena, 1686, in 4to. has several which illustrate different Places of St. Matthew. The first is upon the opening of our Saviour’s Side, ibid. 1687. This is the first Exercitation of the third Decad in 4to. Upon our Saviour’s Sweating Blood, ibid. the second Exercitation. Upon Mary’s Perfume, ibid. the first Exercitation of the fourth Decad. 1689, in 4to. Upon the Lord’s Prayer, and the grain of Mustard, the third Exercitation, ibid. Upon the Palsy with which the Centurion’s Servant was afflicted, ibid. the second Exercitation. Upon the anointing of our Saviour, ibid. the seventh. Upon the Hissop applied to his Lips; the second Exercitation of the fourth Decad, ibid. 1694. Upon the Disease of St. Peter’s Mother-in-law, ibid. the fourth Exercitation. Upon the Mint, Anise, and Cummin of the Pharisees, ibid. the fifth. Upon the Crown of Thorns, the eighth. Upon the Tax of Augustus, the first Exercitation of the first Decad, second Century. We have already said something of this Author upon the Kings, and Job. We shall speak of him again.
John Wandalin, of whom we have spoken on the Old Testament, has put out an Explanation of what our Saviour says of the Scribe instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven; printed at Copenhagen, in 1663, in 4to. He has written also a Dissertation upon the Holyday of the Passion, and the three days of Christ’s lying in the Grave, against William Langius; printed at Lipsick, 1652, in 4to. and in Grævius’s Dissertations; printed at Utrecht, 1702, in 4to.
Godfrey Wegner, of whom likewise we have spoken upon the Old Testament, has made Notes upon the Infancy, Baptism, and Temptation of Jesus Christ; printed at Lipsick, 1705, in 4to. Upon the Style of St. Matthew, ibid. 1696, in 4to. Upon the Place of Jesus Christ’s Birth; printed at Frankfort, 1673, in 4to. Upon the three days Death of Jesus Christ, in his Historical and Philological Dissertations.