Jean Hessels - notices Cyprian evidence - (not given in Erasmus correspondence and annotations)

Steven Avery

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Jean Hessels (1522-1696)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hessels
Jan Hessels,
Jean Leonardi Hasselius or
Jean Hessels[1]
Name also: Lenaert van der Eycken, Johannes, Joannes, Jan, John Hessels or Hessel, Hesselius or Hasselius.
(Hasselt, 1522 – 1566)
was a Flemish theologian at the University of Louvain. He was a defender of Baianism.

PRDL

CERL

Lucerna apostolica ecclesiae Dei sive in B. Pauli ad Timotheum, Petri et Joannis canonicas epistolas tres priores commentaria (1604 edition)
https://books.google.com/books?id=kD9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA106-IA1


Grantley McDonald, Biblical Criticism (not covered in Ghost of Arius)

Jan Hessels, professor of theology at Leuven, discussed the comma in his commentary on 1 Jn (1568). HesseLs interpreted die unity of the heavenly witnesses as a unanimity of testimony to Jesus’ status as Son of God. He noted that the Greek codices only contain v. 8, and that this reading reflects that found in some Latin fathers, such as Ambrose, Bede and Augustine. Hessels also noted that Erasmus had daringly excluded the prologue to the Catholic Epistles, the most important early witness to the authenticity of the passage, from his edition of Jerome’s works. Hessels listed a number of Latin writers who cited the passage, such as pseudo-Hyginus, the author of Against Varimadus, Fulgentius, and pseudo-Athanasius. He also noted that the comma was transmitted in two Greek codices: Erasmus’ British codex, and that on which the reading in the Complutensian Polyglot was presumed to have been based. Hessels also reported the readings from a number of old l-atin codices in the Libraries of St Peters and St Gertrudes in Leuven. 49

49 Hessels 1568. 106v-110v.

Grantley did a good job, with one major exception. No mention that Hessels gives the Cyprian evidence, which had somehow been missed, overlooked .. or avoided, by Erasmus.

"Cyprianus quoque tractatu tertio de simplicitate Praelatorum: Dicit dominus, inquit, ego & Pater unu sumus, Et iterum de Patre & Filio, & Spiritu sacto scriptum est: Et tres unum sunt. Quem locum citat. ex Cypriano Fulgentius responsione decima ad ojbectiones Arrianorum."

1568
https://books.google.com/books?id=rd47AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA109-IA1
1604
https://books.google.com/books?id=sJVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA109-IA1
In fact, Hessels has many references up to p. 110.
 
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Steven Avery

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Jean Hessels - first Reformation-era reference to Cyprian Unity of the Church

Jean Hessels (1522–1566) was a Belgian theologian at the University of Louvain.
https://books.google.com/books?id=yOlgAAAAcAAJ

Here we will show his usage.
And compare with Grantley's way of mishandling Cyprian.
And discuss the quirky Erasmus situation with Cyprian.

Lucerna apostolica ecclesiae Dei, sive, in B. Pauli ad Timotheum, bb. Petri, & Iohannis canonicas epistolas tres priores commentaria (1604)
Jean Hessels
https://books.google.com/books?id=RdGq8Px1QSEC&pg=RA1-PA110


Cyprianus quoque tractatu tertio de simplicitate Praelatorum. Dicit dominus, inquit, ego & Pater unu sumus.
Et iterum de Patre, & Filio, & Spiritu sancto scriptum est: Et tres unum sunt.
Quem locum cicat ex Cypriano Fulgentius responsione decima ad objectiones Arrianorum.
 

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George Cassander (1613-1566)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cassander

Hessels wrote in opposition

Memoirs of the life and works of the right honorable, and right rev. father in god Lancelot Andrewes, D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester (1863)
Arthur T. Russell
https://books.google.com/books?id=MtQ5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA375

Sir Henry Savile’s edition of Chrysostom in eight folios appeared this year. Casaubon vindicates St. Chrysostom on the doctrine of justification, and refers to his discourses on the Epistles where he gives his interpretation of our Lord’s giving himself a ransom for us, 1 Tim. ii. 6. Estius refers to the commentaries of Hesselius for the doctrine of Augustine, Leo, Chrysostom, and other of the Fathers on the mediatorship of Christ.
 
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