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Serarius, Nicholas

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a learned Jesuit and commentator on the Scriptures, was born in, 1555 at Rambervillers, in Lorraine. After studying the languages, he taught ethics, philosophy, and theology at Wü rzburg and Mentz, in which last city he died, May 20, 1610, leaving many works, of which the following are the principal: De Pharisoeorum, Sadducoeorum, et Essenorum Sectis (Franeker, 1603; Mentz, 1604): — Commentarius in Libros Jos., Jud., Ruth., Reg., et Paralip. (ibid. 1609-10, 2 pts. fol.): — Prolegomena Biblica (ibid. 1612): — Rabbini et Hierodes (ibid.): — Opuscula Theologica (3 tom. fol.): — and others which are collected in 16 vols. fol. See Fü rst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 316; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Literatur.