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revelations. Swedenborg, St. Martin, and Baader are his legitimate successors. A large part of the mat- ter of his books is sheer nonsense. After his death his opinions spread over Germany, Holland, and Eng- land. Even a son of his persecutor Richter edited at his own expense an epitome of Bcehme's works in eight volumes. The first collection of his works was published by Heinrieh Betke (Amst. 1G75, 4to). They wcre translated into Dutch by Van Beyerland, and published by him (12mo, 8vo, and 4to). More com- plete than Beyerland's is the edition by Gichtel (10 vols. 8vo, Amst. 1GS2). This was reprinted with Gichtel'a manuscript Marginalia (Altona, 1715,2 vols. 4to), and again, with a notice of former editions and some additions from Gichtel's Memorialia(173G'). More recently an edition of his complete works was publish- ed by Schiebler (Leipz. 1831-47, 7 vols. ; new edit. 1859 sq.). The best translation of his works into Eng- lish is that by the celebrated William Law (Lond. 17G4, 2 vols. 4to). Several accounts of his views were published about the end of the 17th century ; among these the following may be mentioned : Jacob Bcehme's T/ieosipJ/ic PIii/os< ]>//>/, unfdded by Edward Taylor, with a short Account of the Life of J. B. (Lond. 1G91-4). The preacher and physician John Pordage, who died in London 1698, endeavored to systematize the opin- ions of Bcehmc in Mctuplujsica vera et divina, and sev- eral other works. The Metcphysiea was translated into German in three volumes (Francf. and Leipzig, 1725-28). Henry More also wrote a Censura Philoso- phies Teidonicce on the mystical views of Bcehmc. Among the most zealous supporters of Bcehme's the- osophy in England were Charles and Durand Hotham, who published Ad Philosophiam Teutonicam, a Carlo Hotham (1G48) ; and Mystcrium Magnum, with Life of Jacob Behmen, by Durand Hotham, Esq. (1654, 4to). We have also Memoirs of the Life, Death, Burial, and Wonderful Writings of Jacob Behmen, by Francis Oke- h', formerly of St. John's College, Cambridge (North- ampton, 1780, 8vo). Claude St. Martin published French translations of several of Bcehme's writings. Sir Isaac Newton, William Law, Schelling. and Hegel wrere all readers of Bcehme. William Law, in the app. to the 2d ed. of his Appeal to all that Doubt or Dis- believe the Truths of the Gospel (1756), mentions that among the papers of Newton were found many auto- graph extracts from the works of Bcehmc. Law con- jectures that Newton derived his system of funda- mental powers from Bcehme, and that he avoided men- tioning Boehme as the originator of his system, lest it should come into disrepute ; but this may well be doubted. It is said that Schelling often quotes Bcehme without acknowledgment. Bcehme's writings have certainly influenced both theology and philosophy to a considerable extent. In Germany he has followers still. For modern expositions of his system, more or less correct, see Hegel, Gesch. d. Philosophic, iii, 300- ."•27 ; Baur, Chris//. Gnosis, 558 sq. ; Fouquc, ./. llvhme, ein biog. Denkstein (Greiz, 1831); Umbreit, ./. Bbhme (Hcidelb. 1835); Hamberger, Die Lehre J. Bbhme's, etc. (Munich, 1844) ; Fechner, J. Bbhme (Gorlitz, 1857) ; Peip, J. Bbhme, der deutsche Philosoph (Leipz. I860). See also Wesley, Works, iii, 254; iv, 71, 400; v, GG9, 699, 7C3; Hagenbach, History of Doctrines, ii, 1G8, et al. ; Mosheim, Ch. Hist, iii, 391; Tcnnemann, Man. Hist. Phil. § 331 ; Hurst, History of Rationalism, ch. i; Dorner, Person of Christ, div. ii, vol. ii, 319 sq. ; Eng- lish Cyclopaedia, s. v.
Boerner Manuscript (Codex Boernerianus), an important uncial IMS. of the Greek Test., contain- ing (with some lacuna?) Paul's epistles (of which it is generally designated as cod. G), with an interlinear Latin version. It belonged to Paul Junius, of Ley- den, at whose death (1670) it became the property of Peter Francius, professor at Amsterdam ; at the sale of his books in 1705, it was bought at a high price by C. F. Boerner, professor at Leipzig, from whom it
takes its name. He lent it in 1719 to Bentley, who kept it for rive years, endeavoring in vain to purchase it. It is now deposited in the library of the king of Saxony at Dresden. Kettig has proved that, as it is exactly of the same size and style with the Codex Sangallensis (A of the Gospels), the two once formed one volume together, being probably written toward the end of the ninth century in the monastery of St. Gall by some of the Irish monks who flocked thither, one of whom has left a curious Celtic epigram on one of the leaves. See Gall (St.) Manuscript. Scriv- ener has likewise shown its remarkable affinity with the Codex Augicnsis (F of the Pauline Epistles), im- plying that they were both copied from the same ven- erable archetype, as they either supply each other's defects, or fail at the same passages. Kuster first pub- lished readings from it in his reprint of Mill's Gr. Test. Among Bentley's papers has been found a transcrip- tion of the whole of it, but not in his own handwriting. It was very accurately published in full by Matthsei in 1791, in common type, with two fac-simile pages. Anger, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Bottiger, and Scrivener have since carefully collated it. It betrays certain marks of having been copied with a polemical view, but, in connection with the two MSS. named above, it forms a valuable aid to textual criticism. — Tregelles, in Home's Tntrod. iv, 199 ; Scrivener, Introd. p. 135 sq. See Manuscripts, Biblical.