Most authoritative, third edition of Coccejus’s collected works, edited posthumously.

Opera Omnia Theologica. Exegetica. Didactica. Polemica. Phililogica. Divisa in Decem Volumina. Editio Tertia, auctior et emendatior. 12 volumes (10 + 2 supplementary). Rebound Leather binding with spine titles, Folio. H. 37 x W. 25 cm.

Complete and uniform third edition of Coccejus’s collected works, edited posthumously. This edition is the most authoritative and comprehensive. Includes systematic theology (Summa Doctrinae), biblical commentaries (Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, Isaiah, John, Hebrews), Hebrew and Greek philology, disputations, and polemics. Two supplementary volumes titled ‘Opera Anecdota Theologica et Philologica’ (1706), edited by Johannes Henricus Cocceius, containing previously unpublished texts and the Hebrew commentary. Clean,wide-margined leaves, minor occasional browning. No library markings. Bibliography: Brunet II, 183; Graesse II, 240; Van der Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek vol. 3; Not in STCN as a complete 12-volume set. Rare in complete form, including the 1706 Anecdota volumes.

A landmark of Reformed theology and Dutch Golden Age printing. Johannes Coccejus (August 9, 1603 – November 4, 1669), a Dutch theologian, was born at Bremen. After studying at Hamburg and the University of Franeker, where Sixtinus Amama was one of his teachers, he became in 1630 professor of biblical philology at the Gymnasium illustre in his native town. In 1636, he was transferred to Franeker, where he held the chair of Hebrew, and from 1643, the chair of theology as well. Until 1650, he succeeded the elder Friedrich Spanheim as professor of theology at the University of Leiden. His chief services as an oriental scholar were in the department of Hebrew philology and exegesis. As one of the leading exponents of the covenant or federal theology, he spiritualized the Hebrew scriptures to such an extent that it was said that Coccejus found Christ everywhere in the Old Testament and Hugo Grotius found him nowhere. He taught that before as much as after the fall of man, the relation between God and man was a covenant. The first covenant was a Covenant of Works. For this was substituted, after the Fall, the Covenant of Grace, necessitating the coming of Jesus for its fulfillment. He held millenarian views and was the founder of a school of theologians known as the Cocceians. His most distinguished pupil was Campeius Vitringa.

His theology was founded entirely on the Bible, and he did much to promote and encourage the study of the original text. In one of his essays, he contends that the observance of the Sabbath, though expedient, is not binding upon Christians, since it was a Jewish institution.