COMMENTATORS

“A complete history of commentators,” says Mr. Hart well Horne, “would require a volume of no ordinary dimensions.” The reader who is desirous of prosecuting this subject, will find much interesting information relative to the early commentators in Rosenmüller’s “Hist or i a Interpretation is Librorum Sacrorum in Ecclesiâ Christianâ, inde ab Apostolorum Ætate usque ad Origenem, 1795–1814.” This elaborate work treats exclusively of the early commentators. Father Simon’s “His to ire Critique de Vieux Testament,” 4to, 1680, and his “His to ire Critique des Principaux Commentateurs du Nouveau Testament,” 4to, Rotter dam, 1689, contain many valuable strictures on the expositors of the Old and New Testament up to his own time. In 1674 was published at Frankfort, in two volumes folio, Joh. Georg. Dorschei “Biblia Numerata, seu Index Special is in Vetus Test amentum ad singula omnium Librorum Capita et Comment a.” It contains a list of commentators, 191 in number, who had illustrated every book, chapter, or verse of the Scriptures, with reference to the books, chapters, and pages of their several works. The merits and demerits of commentators are likewise discu ed in Walchius’s “Bibliotheca Theologic a Selecta;” in Ernesti’s “Institutio Interpret is Novi Testament i;” in Morus’s “Acroases Academicæ.” Profe or Keil, in his “Element a Hermeneutices Novi Testament i,” and Profe or Beck, in “Monogram mat a Hermeneutices, Librorum Novi Fœder is,” Seiler’s Biblical Hermeneutices, (translated from the German by Dr. Wright, 1835,)—respectively notice the principal expositors of the Scriptures.