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COCCEIUS [strictly See also:KocH], JOHANNES (1603-1669) , Dutch theologian, was See also:born at See also:Bremen. After studying at See also:Hamburg and See also:Franeker, where Sixtinus Amama was one of his teachers, he became in 163o See also:professor of biblical See also:philology at the " Gymnasium illustre ". in his native See also:town. In 1636 he was transferred to Franeker, where he held the See also:chair of See also:Hebrew, and from 1643 the chair of See also:theology also, until 1650, when he succeeded Fr. Spanheim the See also:elder as professor of theology at See also:Leiden. He died on the 4th of See also:November 1669. His See also:chief services as an See also:oriental See also:scholar were in the See also:department of Hebrew philology and exegesis. As one of the leading exponents of the " See also:covenant " or " federal " theology, he spiritualized the Hebrew scriptures to such an extent that it was said that Cocceius found See also:Christ everywhere in the Old Testament and See also:Hugo See also:Grotius found him nowhere. He taught that before the Fall, as much as after it, the relation between See also:God and See also:man was a covenant. The first covenant was a " Covenant of See also:Works." For this was substituted, after the Fall, the " Covenant of See also: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, and he did much to promote and encourage the study of the See also:original See also:text. In one of his essays he contends that the observance of the See also:Sabbath, though expedient, is not binding upon Christians, since it was a Jewish institution.

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pupil was the celebrated Campeius Vitringa. His most valuable See also:work was his See also: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 volumes (Amster-See also:dam, 1673-1675). See See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie.

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