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Early & Medieval 28+
Reformed
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Protestant 2
Lutheran 1
Romanist 1
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Compilation in Greek
Cramer, J.A. – Romans in Catenae [Chains] of the Greek Fathers on the New Testament, vol. 4 (Oxford, 1844), pp.
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Individuals
Origen – Commentaries on the Epistle of Blessed Paul to the Romans in ed. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, vol. 14, cols. 831-1290 For ch. 13, see bk. 9, section 25-34?
Origen (c. 184 – c. 253) of Alexandria, Egypt, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and biblical hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He is known as having greatly popularized an allegorical method of exegesis and has been one of the most influential commentators in Church history.
Ambrose of Milan – On the Epistle to the Romans in Commentary on the 12 Epistles of Blessed Paul in ed. Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 17, cols. 45-184
Ambrose (c. 340 – 397) was a bishop of Milanwho became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.
“From the mid-third century on, Origen’s accomplishment radiated over all provinces of the empire. After him, disciples and admirers produced a whole exegetical literature in the Origenian [allegorical] style:… Ambrose of Milan and Hilary of Poitiers, who introduced him to the Latin West…” – Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (IVP, 1998), p. 7
Chrysostom – 32 Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans in ed. Migne, Patrologiae Graeca, vol. 60, cols. 385-682
Chrysostom (c. 349-407)
Theodore of Mopsuestia – On the Epistle to the Romans in Commentaries on the New Testament in PG 66.793-874 The commentary starts with Rom. 3.
Mopsuestia (c. 350 – 428) is the best known representative of the middle School of Antioch of hermeneutics. The Catholic Encyclopedia says that during his lifetime, Theodore was considered an orthodox Christian thinker. Later though, long after his death, he was condemned as a Nestorian heretic.
Cyril of Alexandria – Explanation on the Epistle to the Romans ed. Migne, Patrologiae Graeca, vol. 74, cols. 774-854
Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444) was a leading and prolific protagonist in the Christological controversies of the late-4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople.
“Cyril produced a biblical exegesis presenting all the marks of a magisterial teaching: solemn diction, a display of vast knowledge and rhetorical skills, a constant affirmation of doctrinal correctness. Verse by verse, Isaiah, the Psalms… School procedures determine Cyril’s exposition of well-organized exegetical works in which the author grasps readers by the hand and, with eloquence and erudition, leads them to the spiritual sense… After Cyril, the exegetical tradition of Alexandria lost its impetus.” – Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (IVP, 1998), p. 8
Augustine – Patrologia Latina, vols. 34-35, 38-39
Sermons 102-3 of Appended Sermons on Rom. 7:15 & 24-25
Exposition of Some Propositions out of Romans 2063-2086
Incomplete Exposition of Romans 2087-2106
Augustine (354-430) was an important early Church father and theologian.
Theodoret of Cyrus – Romans in Commentary on All of Paul’s Epistles in Migne, Patrologiae Graeca, vol. 82, col. 43-226
Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 458/466) was an influential theologian of the school of Antioch, biblical commentator, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus (423–457).
“…he combined Origen’s exegesis with the historical analysis privileged at Antioch.” – Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters, p. 15
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Medieval Church
Gregory the Great – Romans in The Concord of Some Testimonies of Sacred Scripture in PL 79.659-64
Pope Gregory I, or Gregory the Great (c. 540 – 604).
Luculentus – cols. 811-26 of Parts of a Commentary on Some of the New Testament in ed. Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 72
Luculentus lived in the 6th century.
Paterius – Romans in Exposition of the Old & New Testament in Migne, Patrologiae Graeca, vol. 79.1291-1308
Paterius (d. 606) was a bishop of Brescia. He is known as a compiler, in particular of works of Pope Gregory I, for whom he worked as a notary.
Euthalius – cols. 749-52 in A Chain on the Epistles of Paul in PG 85
Euthalius was a bishop who lived sometime during the 4th to the 7th centuries. These works include the Greek version of the Biblical books with a Latin translation in a parallel column, and footnotes below (mostly of alternate readings).
John of Damascus – Select Places in the Epistles of St. Paul out of the Universal Interpretation of St. Chrysostom in ed. Migne, Patrologiae Graeca, vol. 95
John of Damascus (c. 675 or 676-749) was a Syrian monk, priest, polymath and father of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Strabo, Walafridus †849
The Sacred Bible with the Ordinary Gloss
ed. 1603
ed. Migne
“Within medieval schools, the most important commentary used in the disputations was the Glossa ordinaria, the Ordinary Gloss. Glosses are explanatory notes added to a text, in this case, the Bible.. Adding glosses to texts began in the eight and ninth centuries in Northumbria and Ireland. It steadily increased in popularity and use, until, by the beginning of the eleventh century, glossing was widespread… Collections of these glosses offering interpretation of the entire Bible began to appear in Paris about 1220, and shortly thereafter were found in Germany and England.” – History of Biblical Interpretation, vol. 2, pp. 37-8
“The celebrated Glossa Ordinaria of Walafridus Strabo [c. 808-849], or Strabus, may be considered as a Catena Patrum [chain of fathers] on the Scriptures. He copies considerably from Rabanus Maurus [c. 780-856], on some of the books. The work is valuable for giving the literal sense, historical and moral. It was first published at Nuremberg, 1494, in 6 vol. folio, and several editions were afterwards printed. The best are those of Douay, 1617, and Antwerp, 1634, in which the Postilla of De Lyra were incorporated with other additions, ‘forming together’ says Calmet, ‘a treasure for theologians and preachers.’” – James Darling
See also the comments of T.H. Horne, Manual of Biblical Bibliography, p. 244.
Oecumenius
Oecumenius, once believed to be a Bishop of Trikka (now Trikala) in Thessaly writing about A.D. 990, was reputed to be the author of several commentaries on books of the New Testament. However, more recently scholars have redated Oecumenius’ Commentary on the Apocalypse to the early seventh century, or the late sixth century, and have located Oecumenius as writing in Asia Minor.
Lanfranc – Commentaries on All of Paul’s Epistles with Glosses Interjected in ed. Migne, Patrologiae Latina, vol. 150
Lanfranc (1005 to 1010 –1089) was a celebrated Italian jurist who renounced his career to become a Benedictine monk at Bec in Normandy. He served for a time as the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Damian, Petrus – ed. Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 145
Testimonies in the New Testament
Damian (c. 1007–1072 or 1073) was a reforming Benedictine monk and cardinal in the circle of Pope Leo IX. Dante placed him in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Saint Francis of Assisi and he was declared a Doctor of the Roman Church in 1828.
Theophylact
Ennarations on All the Divine Epistles of the Apostle Paul (Rom-Heb)
Theophylact of Ohrid (1055-1107) was a Byzantine archbishop of Ohrid and commentator on the Bible.
Anselm
The Ordinary Gloss of Pseudo-Walfrid Strabo with the Interlinear Gloss of Anslem, in 4 vols. (Strasburg, 1481)
Ennarations on the Epistles of Paul (Cologne, Germany, 1545)
Anselm (c.1033-1109) was an Italian, Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian of the Roman Catholic Church, who held the office of archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
Alulfus of Tournai – Romans in Exposition of the New Testament in ed. Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 79, cols. 1291-1308
Alulfus (d. 1140’s) was a Benedictine monk of St. Martin of Tournay. As he had collected a number of literary pieces from Gregory the Great, Alulfus’ work was placed as an appendix to Gregory the Great’s works (6th century) in Patrologia Latina.
Comestor, Petrus
Editions of the Historica Scholastica 1st ed. 1175
Comestor (d. 1178) was a French theological writer and university administrator. For information on the Historia Scholastica, see Wikipedia.
“By the twelfth century, comprehensive, discursive commentaries emerged. The most influential discursive commentary, the Historia scholastica by Peter Comestor, chancellor of the school of Notre Dame, appeared in 1175. This comprehensive exposition of the Bible became widely used in the later Middle Ages.” – History of Biblical Interpretation, vol. 2, p. 38
The Latin Bible with the Ordinary Glosses c. 1220
Glossae Scripturae Sacrae Electronicae
“Around 1220 the first complete glossed Bibles were produced, and about the same time what was by then a more or less standard text came to be called the Glossa Ordinaria, the Ordinary Gloss to Scripture, its status propagated if not at first achieved in connection with the theological faculty of the new university of Paris…” – Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (IVP, 1998), p. 77
“The most important glossed Bible was the Ordinary Gloss, nine volumes of interpretation of the Bible… The Ordinary Gloss wielded vast influence in scholasticism, helped by the citations of it in Lombard’s [very popular] Four Books of Sentences…” – History of Biblical Interpretation, vol. 2, p. 38
Anthony of Padua – The Mystical Interpretation in the Sacred Scripture in ed. R.P. Joannis de la Haye of Paris, All the Works of St. Anthony of Padua (Pedeponti Ratisbonam Bibliopolae, 1739), pp. 366-608
Anthony (1195-1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order.
Hugo of Saint Caro d. 1263
All the Homilies of Hugo from St. Caro, in which are Delineated All the Senses: Literal, Allegorical, Tropological & Analogical, on (1487/1703):
“The most influential type of comprehensive commentary, the postilla, was developed in the Dominican school at the University of Paris in the early thirteenth century, under the influence of Hugh of Saint-Cher (d. 1263). The postilla, a running commentary composed originally as classroom lectures, became the typical Bible commentary of scholasticism. The postilla was intended to supplement the Ordinary Gloss with newer interpretations and theological outlooks. These supplements were often digressions on theological subjects suggested by the passage being interpreted, and focused essentially on the literal sense of the passage.” – History of Biblical Interpretation, vol. 2, p. 38
Gorranus, Nicolaus
Commentary on All the Epistles of Paul, vol. 1 (Rom-Col), 2 (Thess-Heb)
Gorranus (1232-1295) was a Dominican. The work on the catholic epistles has sometimes been attributed to Thomas Aquinas, but it is Gorran’s.
Aureolus, Petrus – A Compendium of the Literal Sense of the Whoe Divine Scripture d. 1322
Aureolus (1280-1322).
“One early fourteenth century interpreter, the Franciscan Pierre Aureol, made a handy Compendium to rival the old Historia Scholastica. But the form of these achievements was not exclusive.” C. Ocker, Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (IVP, 1998), p. 78
De Lyra, Nicholas d. 1349
The Sacred Bible Set in Order and Interlined with Glosses and the Postils and Moral Teachings of Nicholas de Lyra ed. 1545
“The Postilla, or short commentaries of De Lyra [c. 1270-1349], are far superior to the age in which he flourished, and show great acquaintance with the literal sense of Scripture. They are especially valuable for the Old Testament, from his superior knowledge of Hebrew and the Rabbinical writers, particularly Jarchi [1040–1105]. An edition was printed by Mentelin, in 1473, in 4 vol. folio, and many other editions were printed. The best are those which accompany the Glossa of Strabo [above]. The Postilla are also to be found in the Biblia Maxima of De la Haye [below].” – James Darling
“A book regarded as having no small part in bringing on the Reformation. ‘Lyra’s lyre woke Luther’s dance.’” – Howard Malcom
Denis the Carthusian d. 1471
Commentary on the Old & New Testament (in Works, vols. 1-13)
Denis (1402-1471) “Without much secular learning or much criticism, Dionysius the Carthusian has great discernment, knowledge and piety, with an easy style. There were various editions of the different volumes of his commentaries printed in the sixteenth century.” – James Darling
Vallo, Laurentius – Collated Annotations on the New Testament (published by Erasmus in 1505; Basil, 1526) GB (Amsterdam, 1630)
Laurentius (c. 1407–1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, educator and Roman Catholic priest. He is best known for his textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery.
“Valla held a distinguished rank among the revivers of literature, and was one of the first who considered the sense of the New Testament as a critic rather than as a divine; whence he was led to make many corrections in the Latin Vulgate translation. His annotations were first edited by Erasmus: they are also to be found in the Critici Sacri.” – Thomas Hartwell Horne
“One of the most influential humanist scholars of the fifteenth century was Lorenzo Valla (1405-57), who had an appointment in the papal court in Rome. He was a very early, gifted text critic, who understood the need to collate the readings of extant manuscripts as a means of determining the original reading of biblical texts. He collated Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Gospels, annotating the differences that he found.” – ed. Hauser & Watson, History of Biblical Interpretation: Medieval, p. 43
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Reformed: 1500’s
Oecolampadius, Johannes
Oecolampadius (1482-1531) was a reformer and humanist, largely in Basel.
Zwingli, Ulrich
Zwingli (1484-1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
Calvin, John – Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans (Strassburg, 1540) 460 pp. no ToC
Pellican, Conrad – Rom-Jude (Zurich, 1532-1542)
“Pellican gives the Latin Vulgate retouched, and rendered more conformable to the Hebrew and Greek; his commentaries are excellent for elucidating the literal and grammatical sense of Scripture, and for throwing light on many obscure passages. He did not write on Jonah, Zechariah, or the Apocalypse. The commentary on the Apocalypse, by S[ebastian] Meyer, in which Pellican assisted is often added. The work thus complete (in 10 vol. folio) is very scarce.” – James Darling
Pellican, Conrad, Henry Bullinger, Leo Jud, Theodore Bibliander – The Most Holy Bible of the Old & New Testament… with a Consulting of Orthodox Interpreters (Tigur, 1543)
This has light margin notes, similar to a study Bible. On the authors, see Wikipedia on Pellican, Jud & Bibliander. On this work, see John Kitto, Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature, on Bibliander, p. 363.
Ochino, Bernard – An Exposition of the Epistle of the Divine Paul to the Romans, translated from Itallian to Latin (Augusta, 1545) 101 pp. no ToC Index
Ochino (1487–1564) was an Italian, raised Romanist, who later became a Protestant reformer.
Hyperius, Andreas
An Exegesis of the Epistle of the Divine Paul to the Romans (Marburg, 1548) 130 pp. no ToC
On Romans in Commentaries on the Epistle of the Divine Paul to the Romans and each to the Corinthians ed. Joann Mylius (Zurich, 1583), pp. 1-179
These two works are different, the latter being more indepth.
Bucer, Martin
A Paraphrase & Perpetual Commentary on Romans
Bucer (1491-1551) was a German Protestant reformer in the Reformed tradition based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices.
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – Most Learned Commentaries on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans… 3rd ed. (1558; Basil, 1568) ToC Index
Musculus, Wolfgang
Commentaries on:
Musculus (1497-1563)
Marlorat, Augustine – A Catholic, Ecclesiastical Exposition of the New Testament… or a Library of Exposition (Geneva, 1570)
Marlorat (1506-1562) was a French reformer.
“A valuable work, containing Erasmus’ Latin Version of the New Testament, with the Expositions of the Fathers of the Church, and of Bucer, Calvin, Erasmus, Musculus, Melanchthon, Sarcerius, Brentius, Bullinger, Zwinglius, Vitus Theodorus, Marloratus, etc.” – James Darling
“The multiplicity of editions, through which this work passed, attests the high and deserved estimation in which it was formerly held, though it is now but little known. It contains Erasmus’s Latin version of the New Testament, together with various expositions, collected from the writings of the father of the church as well as from later interpreters, whether of the Reformed or Lutheran communions, with which the author has intermixed his own observations.” – Thomas Hartwell Horne
Strigel, Victor – Commentary [Hypomnemata] on All the Books of the New Testament (Leipzig, 1565)
Strigel (1524-1569) was initially a Lutheran professor of philosophy who came to accept the reformed teaching on the Eucharist and became a professor of ethics and history at Heidelberg.
“‘This is another of the most valuable books of sacred criticism. The observations are neat, and the critical judgment of Victorinus Strigelius is excellent.’ (Dr. Harwood.)” – Thomas Hartwell Horne
Cameron, John – in Beza & Cameron, Annotations on the New Testament by Theodore Beza… to which is Appended a New Covenant Commentary by John Cameron [1572] (Cambridge, 1642) Cameron’s commentary is at the back of the volume here.
“The notes of Camerarius, which were added only in this edition, are important.” – James Darling
“The Commentaries of Joachim Camerarius, which form a part of this work, are very useful: in them, the learned author expounds the text in a grammatical and critical manner only, according to the genius of the original languages, and without entering into any disputed points of doctrine. They are a reprint of Camerarius’s Notatio figurarum sermonis in libris quatuor evangeliorum, et indicata verborum significatio et orationis sententia, ad illorum scriptorum intelligentiam certiorem. Lipsiae, 1572. 2 vols. 4to.” – Thomas Hartwell Horne
Aretius, Benedict
Aretius (1505–1574) was a Swiss Protestant theologian, Protestant reformer and natural philosopher.
Olevian, Caspar – Notes on the Epistle of the Divine Paul, Apostle, to the Romans, Excerpted out of the Sermons of Caspar Olevian ed. Theodore Beza (Geneva, 1579) 740 pp. ToC
Bullinger, Henry
All of Paul’s Epistles & Hebrews (1603)
Bullinger (1504-1575) was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zürich church and pastor at Grossmünster.
Gwalther, Rudolph
All the Arguments of the Chapters of Both the Old & New Testament Written in Elegant Verse
Homilies on: Romans
Gwalther (1519-1586) was a Reformed pastor and Protestant reformer who succeeded Heinrich Bullinger as Antistes of the Zurich church.
del Corro, Antonio – Dialogue on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans (Frankfurt, 1687) 199 pp. ToC is left column
Aubery, Claude – Of the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Faith, contra all Apostates which from that Faith have Defected, 6 Apodictic Orations in which the Epistle of the Apostle Paul written to the Romans is catholicly Expounded (Lausanne, 1587) 369 pp. no ToC
Beza, Theodore – Annotations on the New Testament of Jesus Christ our Lord… ([Geneva] 1598)
Romans 10
This is a best edition of the work. It gives Beza’s Greek text in parallel columns with his Latin translation in the middle, with the Vulgate on the right. His large annotations and discussions (much larger than what is in the English translation) follow under the columns. Another good edition of this work is below under the 1640’s.
Rollock, Robert
Rollock (1555-1599) was Scottish and was the first regent and first principal of the University of Edinburgh.
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Reformed: 1600’s
Tossanus, Daniel
Tossanus (1541-1602) was a French Reformed theologian.
Herlin, Johann Henrich – Instruction on the Reading of all the Books of the New Testament, by an Primary or General Analysis of them, by a summary series of the Things & Arguments… (Bern, 1605)
Herlin (d. 1611) was a reformed professor of Greek, ethics and theology at Bern, Switzerland.
de la Faye, Antoine – A Commentary on the Epistle of the Divine Apostle Paul to the Romans… (Geneva: Chovet, 1608) 600 pp. no ToC
Drusius, Joannes
Annotations on the New Testament (Franeker, 1616) The first part of the volume is a dictionary of Hebrew words in the NT with philological comments.
Annotations in the Whole Testament of Jesus Christ (Amsterdam, 1632) This is different than that above.
Drusius (1550-1616) was a Flemish divine, distinguished specially as an Orientalist, Hebraist and exegete.
Casaubon, Isaac & Henry Estienne – The New Testament (Geneva, 1617)
Casaubon (1559–1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England. He was a professor of Greek at Geneva and was regarded by many of his time as the most learned man in Europe. Estienne (1531-1598), also known as Henricus Stephanus, was a 16th-century French printer and classical scholar
This work is an edition of the Greek New Testament. It has summary of the contents of each chapter and lists mainly cross references and alternate Greek readings in the margin notes. The notes are also in the Critici Sacri.
Grynaeus, Johann Jakob
A Brief Chronology of the Evangelical History & a Logical Analysis of Romans
Grynaeus (1540-1617) was a Swiss professor of the Old & New Testament at Basel. He was also a professor of the New Testament for a time at Heidelberg.
Scultetus, Abraham & Johann Bockstadius – Outlines [Ideae] of Sermons on the Epistle to the Romans ed. Nicholas Eccius (Heidelberg: Rosa, 1619) 609 pp. ToC Index
Pareus, David – Intro to Epistles of Paul & Rom – 1 Cor
Pareus (1548-1622)
Melville, Andrew – A Commentary on the Dvine Epistle to the Romans by Paul (Edinburgh: Wodrow Society, 1849) in A Logical Analysis of Romans in A Logical Analysis of Romans by Charles Ferme… and a Commentary on the Same Epistle by Andrew Melville… ed. William L. Alexander (Edinburgh: Wodrow Society, 1850), pp. 379-515
Cameron, John & Alexander Morus – The Evangelical Ointment-Box: Here are Many Places of the New Testament aptly and skillfully Illustrated, Explicated and Vindicated from it with many labors, to which are Appended The Notes on the New Covenant by Alexander Morus… with his Theological Axioms (Salmur, 1677) This work of Cameron’s covers less verses than his commentary appended to Beza’s commentary below, but it covers these verses in greater depth. Morus’ commentary starts on p. 303 and is the same as that listed below on this webpage.
Cameron (c. 1579 – 1625) was a Scottish theologian and a professor of theology in Saumur, France. Morus (1616-1670) was born in Scotland, spent time in France and became a professor of Greek and theology at Geneva. Being forced to leave Geneva due to his Amyraldianism, he settled in Amsterdam.
Cappel, Jacques
Observations on the New Testament, Excepting the Acts of the Apostles & the Apocalypse of John (Amsterdam, 1657)
Cappel (1570-1624) was a professor of Hebrew and theology and the uncle of the well-known Louis Cappel.
Piscator, Johann – Commentaries on
Piscator (1546-1625)
Heinsius, Daniel – Sacred Exercitations upon the New Testament (Cambridge, 1640)
Heinsius (1580-1655) was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance. He was a reviser of the Statenvertaling, was a student of Scaliger and Grotius and was Secretary of the States General at the Synod of Dordt.
Cappel, Jacques – Observations on the New Testament, Excepting the Acts of the Apostles & the Apocalypse of John (Amsterdam, 1657)
Cappel (1570-1624) was a professor of Hebrew and theology and the uncle of the well-known Louis Cappel.
Gomarus, Francis
Gomarus (1563-1641) was a Dutch theologian and an opponent of James Arminius.
Zwinger, Jr., Theodore – An Analytical Recension on the Epistle of the Blessed Apostle Paul to the Romans, with a Resolution of Various Most Honored & Useful Questions… (Basil: Konig, 1655) 565 pp. no ToC Questions Indices: Subject, Scripture
Zwinger, Jr. (1597-1654)
Revius, Jacobus – Notes in Lorentius Vallo out of Collections on the New Testament in Critici Sacri, vol. 6 (Gospels), 7 (Acts-Rev) 1660
Revius (1586-1658) was a Dutch poet, reformed professor of theology at Leiden and a church historian. Laurentius (c. 1407–1457) was a Roman Catholic priest.
Coccejus Johannes – The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans with a Commentary (Leiden, 1668) 786 pp. no ToC
Morus, Alexander – Notes on Some Places in the New Covenant (Paris, 1668)
Morus (1616-1670) was born in Scotland, spent time in France and became a professor of Greek and theology at Geneva. Being forced to leave Geneva due to his Amyraldianism, he settled in Amsterdam.
Doughtie, John
Sacred Analecta, or Brief Philological Excursus on Diverse Places of the Old & New Testaments, to which is subjoined the Animadversions of Norton Knatchbul on the Books of the New Testament (1694) While this edition contains commentary on the NT, the scanning of it is so bad that it is hardly usable.
Doughtie (1598–1672) was a reformed Anglican.
Knatchbul (1602–1685) was a scholar and may have been reformed as Peter du Moulin the younger in 1680 dedicated to him his ‘Short View of the Chief Points in Controversy between the Reformed Churches and the Church of Rome’.
Knatchbul “In the year before the Restoration [in 1660]… published his ‘Animadversiones in Libros Novi Testamenti. Paradoxæ Orthodoxæ… The work consists of a large number of critical emendations, based upon a fair knowledge of Hebrew, and showing considerable intrepidity for a critic of that period… a fourth edition, in English, appeared in 1692, entitled ‘Annotations upon some difficult Texts in all the Books of the New Testament,’ Cambridge, 1693 [Ref]. The translation is, according to Darling (Cyclop. Bibl. 1738), the author’s own… The work was held in great estimation for a century after its publication, and figures in a list of books annotated by the learned Ambrose Bonwicke (1652–1722) [q. v.] (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. v. 141). Kitto, however, says that Knatchbull’s remarks ‘are entirely wanting in depth, and we cannot read them without wonder at the small amount of knowledge which procured for their author such a widespread reputation’ (Cyclop. Bibl. ii. s.v.) ” – Dictionary of National Biography
Cartwright, Christopher – The Honey of the Hebrews, or Diverse Observations out of the Hebrews, Especially of Antiquities and Monuments, with Many Place in the Old & New Testament Explained, Illustrated and Other Many Notes… in Critici Sacri (1660), vol. 9, cols. 2943-3128
Cartwright (1602–1658) was an English clergyman, known as a Hebraist and for his use of targums in Biblical exegesis, following the lead of Henry Ainsworth with John Weemes.
“This [work] was first published in the ninth volume of the Critici Sacri, 1660…” – Wikipedia
Coccejus, Johannes
Coccejus (1603-1669) was a Dutch theologian born in Bremen, known for his alternate covenant theology.
Leusden, Johannes
Key to the Hebrew OT & Greek NT in which Difficult Subjects are Driven Back, Irregular Words & Constructions are Explained, Other Difficulties are Unfolded and Sacred & Profane Philological Observations & Antiquities are Annotated (Utrecht, 1672/83)
Leusden (1624-1699) was a Dutch theologian and professor of Oriental languages at Utrecht.
de Brais, Etienne – A Paraphrastic Analysis with Notes of the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans (d. c. 1677; Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1707) 262 pp. no ToC
de Brais (c.1630 – c.1677)
Momma, Wilhelm – Posthumous Meditations on the Epistles to the Romans & the Galatians (d. 1677; Hague, 1678) 726 pp. no ToC Indices: Subject, Scripture
Commentary on Romans [1:1-2:7] 1-460
Analytical Notes on [the Whole of] Romans 461-616
Analytical Exposition of Galatians [chs. 1-3] 617-726
Poole, Matthew – Romans in Synopsis of the Interpreters and Commentators of Sacred Scripture (1678/1684), vol. 5 Abbr.
This set is different (much more massive and detailed) than Poole’s Annotations on the Whole Bible, which has been reprinted in 3 vols. For the Romanist equivelent to this work, see Sixtus of Siena above.
“If you are well enough versed in Latin, you will find in Poole’s Synopsis a marvelous collection of all the wisdom and folly of the critics. It is a large cyclopaedia worthy of the days when theologians could be cyclopean, and had not shrunk from folios to octavos. Query–a query for which I will not demand an answer–has one of you ever beaten the dust from the venerable copy of Poole which loads our library shelves? Yet as Poole spent no less than ten years in compiling it, it should be worthy of your frequent notice–ten years, let me add, spent in Amsterdam in exile for the truth’s sake from his native land.
His work was based upon an earlier compilation entitled Critici Sacri, containing the concentrated light of a constellation of learned men who have never been excelled in any age or country.” – Charles Spurgeon, Commenting & Commentaries
Wittich, Christopher – Metalleia, or an Investigation of the Epistle to the Romans written by the Apostle Paul, one with a Paraphrase (Leiden, 1685) 675 pp. no ToC no Index
Wittich (1625–1687) was a Dutch theologian. He is known for attempting to reconcile Descartes’ philosophy with the Scriptures.
Heidegger, Johann Heinrich – A Biblical Manual: Sacred Reading, a General Analysis of each of the Books of the Old & New Testament… (Amsterdam, 1688)
Heidegger (1633-1698) was a Swiss theologian and the principal author of the Formula Consensus Helvetica (1675).
Keuchenius, Peter – Annotations on All the Books of the New Testament, with a Preface by Johann Alberti 2nd ed. (Leiden, 1755)
Keuchenius (1654-89) was a learned Dutch minister and theologian. Alberti (1698-1762) was a Dutch theologian and professor of theology at Leiden.
“The author’s aim in these annotations is to throw light on the N. Test. by determining the sense in which words and phrases were used at the time it was written, and among those with whom its writers were familiar. For this purpose he compares the language of the N. Test. with that of the Septuagint, and calls in aid from the Chaldee and Syriac versions. His notes are characterized by sound learning and great good sense. Alberti commends in strong terms his erudition, his candor, solidity, and impartiality.” – Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopaedia, ii, 729
de Dieu, Ludovici
Sacred Criticism, or Animadversions on the Difficult Places of the Old & New Testaments (1693)
Animadversions on: (These are different than that above)
de Dieu (1590-1642) was a Dutch minister and an orientalist.
Horch, Heinrich – An Apparatus to the Demonstration of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (Herborne, 1694) 74 pp. no ToC
Leydekker, Melchior – An Exercitation on the Mind of Paul in the Epistles to the Romans & Galatians… to which is Adjoined a Dissertation on the Errors in Belgium by Serpents & on the Necessary Concord of the Orthodox (Utrecht, 1694) no page numbers no ToC
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Reformed: 1700’s
van Alphen, Hieronymus Simons
1-2 Corinthians
Galatians – Ephesians
Colossians
1-2 Thessalonians
Hebrews
1 Peter
van Alphen (1665-1742) was a German Reformed theologian. Some of his commentaries are only in Dutch.
Iken, Conrad – A New Theological-Philological Thesaurus, or a Syllabus of Exegetical Dissertations on Select & Significant Places of the Old & New Instruments, vols. 1 (OT), 2 (NT)
Iken (1689-1753) was a professor of theology at Bremen, Germany.
Palairet, Elias – Philological & Critical Observations on the Sacred Books of the New Covenant (Leiden, 1752)
Palairet (1713-65) was a Dutch minister and classical scholar, who spent his later life in England.
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On the 1st Half of Romans: Reformed
1600’s
von Diest, Heinrich – Sermons on the First Five Chapters of the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans, in which is Explicated the Most Noble Doctrine of Justification, with other doctrines and cohering materials annexed to it… (Arnheim, 1676) 597 pp. ToC
Lightfoot, John – Hebrew & Talmudic Hours Expended on the Epistle to the Romans [chs. 3-11] bound after Hebrew & Talmudic Hours Expended on the Acts of the Aposltes, a Posthumous Work out of the Collected & Edited Manuscripts of the Author (Leipzig, 1679), pp. 139-48
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Protestant
1600’s
Scaliger, Joseph Justus – Notes in the New Testament Ref These notes are found in the Critici Sacri (which is on this webpage).
Scaliger (1540-1609) was a French scholar who became a Protestant in his travels. See the article by H.J. De Jong, ‘Joseph Scaliger’s Historical Criticism of the New Testament’ in Novum Testamentum, vol. 38, Fasc. 2 (Apr., 1996), pp. 176-93.
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1800’s
Hardy, Samuel – The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, with Theological & Philological Scholia, vol. 1, 2 3rd ed. (London, 1820)
“‘It was a very useful companion to every biblical student…’ – Dr. Clarke. The third edition of this work is the most correct: it is beautifully printed. The notes are chiefly extracted from [Matthew] Poole’s Synopsis.” – Thomas Hartwell Horne
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Lutheran
1500’s
Alesius, Alexander – All the Disputations… on the Whole Epistle to the Romans put forth at Diverse Times… with a Preface by Philip Melanchthon (1553) no ToC
Alesius (1500–1565) was a a Scottish theologian who emigrated to Germany and became a Lutheran supporter of the Augsburg Confession. PRDL lists Alesius as Lutheran / Reformed.
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Romanist
* Sixtus of Siena – ‘Annotations & Censures on Expositors of the Divine Volumes…’ in A Holy Library, Collected out of Principal Catholic Church Authors (Leiden: Sib. a Porta, 1593), bks. 5-6, pp. 326-559 Not every verse or book is commented on.
Sixtus Senensis (1520–1569) was a Jew who converted to Romanism and became a Franciscan preacher. He then became a Dominican and is considered one of the two most outstanding Dominican scholars of his generation.
This work is something of the Romanist equivelent to the protestant Matthew Poole’s Synopsis of the Critics.
[On the larger volume] “…also published as Ars Interpretandi Sacras Scripturas, discusses the canon and authority of Scripture, the individual biblical authors and their writings, and the interpretation of the text in its various senses and offers comments on passages of theological and critical interest in both Testaments. Sixtus’s work is noteworthy for its critical and hermeneutical dimensions, such as its argument for the multiple authorship of the Psalter, its assumption of a twofold literal sense much like that taught by Nicholas of Lyra, and its advocacy of the use of original texts and multilingual tools like the Complutensian Polyglott.” – R. Muller, Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (IVP, 1998), p. 135
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