Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

…But even here, his performance as an ambassador was not very good, and he seems to have been absorbed in academics. An important work from this period was the Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (published in 1679), which is notable for its historical and linguistic approach to Bible study. In 1644, he was dismissed from his post as ambassador, and the following year he returned to Sweden. In August of that year, he set out for Lübeck, but was lost in a storm on the way, and barely managed to land near Danzig. On the way to Lübeck by carriage, he died of exhaustion in Rostock in the middle of the night on August 28 (or more precisely, in the early morning of the 29th). …

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…しかしここでも大使としての実績はあまり上がらず，彼は学問に熱中していたらしい。この時代の重要な著作は，《旧･新約聖書注解》(1679年に公刊)であり，聖書研究に歴史的･言語学的方法を用いたことが注目される。44年大使解任，翌年スウェーデンにいったん帰国したが，その年の8月，リューベックに向かって旅立ち，途中暴風のため遭難，かろうじてダンチヒ付近に避難上陸し，馬車でリューベックに向かう途中，ロストクにおいて8月28日夜半(正確には29日早朝)疲労のために死亡した。…

※「《旧・新約聖書注解》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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