In Selectissimam D. Pauli Apostoli Priorem ad Corinthios Epistolam. Editio  tertia, prioribus longe emendatior. [Bound with:] Gwalther's. In Priorem (only)  D. Pauli Apostoli ad Corinthios Epistolam Homiliae

Martyr Vermigli, Peter; Rudolf Gwalther

Tiguri: Apud Christophorum Froschouerum,, 1579

Folio. Two works bound in one. First part of Rudolf Gwalther's commentary on Corinthians.  Blind tooled vellum, red leather spine label, raised bands. Wear and chipping to vellum, joints cracked. Library bookplate.  [10], [32], 242 pp; [18], [14], 272 pp. Occasional spotting and old ink marginalia. Old dampstain to bottom margins throughout. Adams M790; G1397 (Priorem only). Bookplate and signatures of A.W. Miller, 1874, one ink signature on front board.

Kressner Helmut interpreted Gwalther's Homilies on Corinthians as a specific attack on Genevan Presbyterianism. He writes: "Gualthers Homilien enthalten die klassische Antwort auf Tendenzen solcher Art, eine Antwort, die zugleich der von Zwingli geformten politischen Theorie die pragnanteste und schroffste Formulierung gab" Schweizer Urspruung, p. 81.

Gualther's homilies contain the classical answer to tendencies of this kind, an answer which at the same time gave Zwingli's political theory the most succinct and abrupt formulation.