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Concerning Milton's Samson
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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During the last few years Baker Library in Hanover, New Hampshire, has acquired, in microfilm, copies of logical and theological works by Calvinist scholastics. These works are either rare or unduly dispersed, and were much needed for any adequate study of the mind and art of Milton. I have therefore been able to draft a monograph, ‘Form and Faith,’ a study in the basic philosophy of Milton, Downham, and Polanus. Various parts of the monograph will doubtless appear in philosophical, theological, and literary journals; but being thus in their turn dispersed they may not easily come to the attention of Renaissance scholars.
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1 (Amos) Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf, the architect of Calvinist scholasticism, was born in 1561 at Troppau on the Oppa. A Silesian Czech, he came within the Hussite orbit. His educative years and major significance have recently been well studied by E. Staehelin in Vol. XLiv of the Basler Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Polanus became professor of Old Testament at Calvinist Basel in 1573, twice held the office of rector of the university, and just finished his monumental Syntagma Theologiae Christianae before he died of a fever at the age of forty-nine. His work was digested and popularized by his successors, especially John Wolleb.
2 References in this form are to the vol. and p. of the Columbia Milton.
3 cf. Lewis and Short: New Latin Dictionary.
4 The A-postolic Fathers, tr. K. Lake, I, 53-55.
5 See the works of Lactantius in the Ante-Nicene Fathers; and J. H. Hanford in PMLA xxxvi, esp. 266, 296.
6 Johannes Wolleb of Basel; where he was born in 1586, pursued his studies, and was ordained. In 1618 he succeeded Grynaeus as preacher at the cathedral and Polanus in the chair of Old Testament. He produced his Comfendium Theologiae Christianae, his digest of the Syntagma of Polanus, in 1626, and died in 1629. On Milton's debt to Wolleb, see PMLA L, 156-165 and MLN LV, 403-407.
7 xv, 280-283) Polanus, of. cit. col. 380; Wolleb, of. cit. Bk. 1, Chap, xvi, Canon I.
8 cf. T. Nicklin and R. O. P. Taylor, Church Quarterly Review CXL, 198 ff.
9 Weimar ed., Bd. 40, Abt. iii, p. 457; Nazarene being-taken as ‘the Branch.’
10 Corfus Reformatorum LXXXI, 102-103.
11 Wolleb, of. cit. 1, xiv.