§ 161.6. =Theological Literature.=--Biblical oriental philology flourished in the Reformed church of this age. =Drusius= of Franeker, who died A.D. 1616, was the greatest Old Testament exegete of his day. The two =Buxtorfs= of Basel, the father died A.D. 1629, the son A.D. 1664, the greatest Christian rabbinical scholars, wrote Hebrew and Chaldee grammars, lexicons, and concordances, and maintained the antiquity and even inspiration of the Hebrew vowel points against Cappellus of Saumur. =Hottinger= of Zürich, who died A.D. 1667, vied with both in his knowledge of oriental literature and languages, and wrote extensively on biblical philology, and besides found time to write a comprehensive and learned church history. =Cocceius=, too, occupies a respectable place among Hebrew lexicographers. In England, both before and after the Restoration, scholarship was found, not among the controversial Puritans, but among the Episcopal clergy. =Brian Walton=, who died A.D. 1661, aided by the English scholars, issued an edition of the “London Polyglott” in six vols., in A.D. 1657, which, in completeness of material and apparatus, as well as in careful textual criticism, leaves earlier editions far behind. =Edm. Castellus= of Cambridge in A.D. 1669 published his celebrated “_Lexicon Heptaglottum_.” The Elzevir printing-house at Amsterdam and Leyden, boldly assuming the prerogatives of the whole body of theological scholars, issued a _textus receptus_ of the N.T. in A.D. 1624. The best established exegetical results of earlier times were collected by Pearson in his great compendium, the “_Critici Sacri_,” nine vols. fol., London, 1660; and Matthew Pool in his “_Synopsis Criticorum_,” five vols. fol., London, 1669. Among the exegetes of this time the brothers, J. Cappellus of Sedan, who died A.D. 1624, and Louis Cappellus II. of Saumur, who died A.D. 1658, were distinguished for their linguistic knowledge and liberal criticism. =Pococke= of Oxford and =Lightfoot= of Cambridge were specially eminent orientalists. =Cocceius= wrote commentaries on almost all the books of Scripture, and his scholar =Vitringa= of Franeker, who died A.D. 1716, gained great reputation by his expositions of Isaiah and the Apocalypse. Among the Arminians the famous statesman =Grotius=, who died A.D. 1645, was the greatest master of grammatico-historical exposition in the century, and illustrated Scripture from classical literature and philology. The Reformed church too gave brilliant contributions to biblical archæology and history. =John Selden= wrote “_De Syndriis Vett. Heb._,” “_De diis Syris_,” etc. =Goodwin= wrote “Moses and Aaron.” =Ussher= wrote “_Annales V. et N.T._” =Spencer= wrote “_De Legibus Heb._” The Frenchman =Bochart=, in his “_Hierozoicon_” and “_Phaleg_,” made admirable contributions to the natural history and geography of the Bible.