JOHANNES See also:

• JOHANNES COCCEIUS [strictly KocH] (1603-1669)

COCCEIUS [strictly See also:

• KOCH
• KOCH, ROBERT (1843–1910)

KocH] (1603-1669)  , Dutch theologian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BREMEN

Bremen . After studying at See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg and See also:

• FRANEKER

Franeker, where Sixtinus Amama was one of his teachers, he became in 163o See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of biblical See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology at the " Gymnasium illustre ". in his native See also:

• TOWN

town . In 1636 he was transferred to Franeker, where he held the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew, and from 1643 the chair of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology also, until 1650, when he succeeded Fr . Spanheim the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder as professor of theology at See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden . He died on the 4th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1669 . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief services as an See also:

• ORIENTAL

oriental See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar were in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Hebrew philology and exegesis . As one of the leading exponents of the " See also:

• COVENANT
• COVENANT (an O. Fr. form, later convenant, from convenir, to agree, Lat. convenire)

covenant " or " federal " theology, he spiritualized the Hebrew scriptures to such an extent that it was said that See also:

• COCCEIUS [strictly KocH], JOHANNES (1603-1669)

Cocceius found See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ everywhere in the Old Testament and See also:

• HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844)
• HUGO, VICTOR MARIE (1802-1885)

Hugo See also:

• GROTIUS, HUGO (1583-1645)

Grotius found him nowhere . He taught that before the Fall, as much as after it, the relation between See also:

• GOD

God and See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man was a covenant . The first covenant was a " Covenant of See also:

• WORKS

Works." For this was substituted, after the Fall, the " Covenant of See also:

• GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
• GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )

Grace," to fulfil which the coming of Jesus Christ was necessary . He held millenarian views, and was the founder of a school of theologians who were called after him Cocceians . His theology was founded entirely on the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, and he did much to promote and encourage the study of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text . In one of his essays he contends that the observance of the See also:

• SABBATH

Sabbath, though expedient, is not binding upon Christians, since it was a Jewish institution .

His most distinguished See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil was the celebrated Campeius Vitringa . His most valuable See also:

• WORK

work was his See also:

• LEXICON

Lexicon et Commentarius Sermonis Hebraici et Chaldaici (Leiden, 1669), which has been frequently republished; his theology is fully expounded in his Summa Doctrinaede Foedere et Testamento Dei (1648) . His collected works were published in 12 See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio volumes (Amster-See also:

• DAM

dam, 1673-1675) . See See also:

• HERZOG, HANS (1819–1894)
• HERZOG, JOHANN JAKOB (1805-1882)

Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie .