Theophilus - the change to the John Lightfoot editions

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Multiple people updated the later editions of John Lightfoot's works
. The two most notable editors were George Bright and John Strype, who oversaw the first collected edition, and John Rogers Pitman, who edited a more complete 19th-century collection.

The 17th-century collected works
After Lightfoot's death, George Bright and John Strype published the first collected edition of his writings, The Works of Lightfoot, in 1684.

  • The two-volume folio set included his major publications and various unpublished sermons and minor works.
19th-century and other editions
Other editors also revised and compiled Lightfoot's works over the centuries, with the most extensive revision being the 19th-century edition.

  • John Rogers Pitman edited the 13-volume Whole Works of the Rev. John Lightfoot between 1822 and 1825. This edition is considered the most complete collection of his writings.
  • Johann Texelius published a Latin edition of Lightfoot's Opera Omnia in Rotterdam in 1686.
  • Johann Leusden edited a later Latin edition of the Opera Omnia, published at Franeker in 1699.
  • Johann Benedict Carpzov edited a Latin version of Lightfoot's Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae in Leipzig between 1675 and 1679.
  • Robert Gandell edited an English version of the Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae in Oxford in 1859.







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.. There was one Theophilus amongst the Jews

This shows up only in the 1823 John Pittman edition
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"probabile quo lucas" "lightfoot"

Κράτισε Θεόφιλε.
Conjectura una est Antiochenus, alia Romanus, nullâ certum quis & cujas. Erat Theophilus quidam inter Judæos, ipsissimis istis temporibus,ut probabile, quo Lucas scripsit, at minime opinamur eum fuisse huncnostrum. De eo Jofepbus,
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Antiq. Antiq. lib. 20. cap. 8. Rex Agrippa Jesumfilium Gamalielis Summo Pontificatu movens ἔδωκενάυτίω Ματθία τω Θεοφίλε, illum dedit Matthiæ filio Theophili. καθ ̓ ἂν ὁ πρὸς Ῥωμαίες πόλεμο ἰδδαίοις ἔλαβε τιὼ ἀρχιώ, Sub cujus tempore bellum Judeorum contra Romanos cepit initium.

VERS. 5. Εξ ἐφημερίας Αβιά.
Parùm aut leviter versati videntur in paginis facris, & non omninò in Judaicis, quorum animum invadere potuit opinio, Zachariam fuisse summum Pontificem, cùm dicatur fuisse de octava Ephemeria, & minifterium fuum hac vice obtinuiffe per fortilegium.

One conjecture is that he was an Antiochene, another that he was a Roman, but it is not certain who and whose. There was a certain Theophilus among the Jews, in those very times, as is probable, in which Luke wrote, but we do not think that he was one of us. Of him Josephus,

Antiq. Antiq. lib. 20. cap. 8. King Agrippa, moving Jeshum the son of Gamaliel to the Supreme Pontificate, gave him to Matthias the son of Theophilus. καθ ̓ ἂν ὁ πρὸς Ῥωμαίες πόλε ἰδδαίοις ἔλαβε τιὼ ἀρχιώ, Under whose time the war of the Jews against the Romans began.
 
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