DAUBUZ, CHARLES, was a French Protestant, born about the year 1670. Like many other re fugees of his nation, his family experienced the hospitality of England on occasion of the revoca tion of the edict of Nantes. In due time, Daubuz entered the ministry of the English Church, and ultimately became vicar of Brotherton, near Ferry bridge, in Yorkshire. He was a man of great learning and moderation. In the year 1706 he published in an Svo volume a work entitled Pro testimonio Playa Yosephi de Yesu Christo contra T Fabrum et alias. But the work which keeps his name in remembrance is his commentary on the Apocalypse, entitled, A perpetual commentary on the Revelation of St. john, ' wherein is contained 1. The original sacred text and the English trans lation, laid down and compared together ; and their true literal and mystical sense opened and explained. 2. The nature of the prophetic style, and the use of symbolical and mystic terms is shewed and illustrated from numerous instances drawn from Christian and Pagan antiquities. 3. The history of the Church of Christ in the several great periods of its militant state here upon earth is set forth ; the whole series of the more extra ordinary events and all its more distinguished epochas marked out and explained ; with a pre liminary discourse concerning the certainty of the principles upon which the Revelation of St. John is to be understood.' This work, which appeared in 1720 in a closely printed folio of more than a thousand pages, vies with the elder Vitringa's Anacrisis Apocalypseos as the most learned treatise which has appeared on the last booletSf the N. T. Canon. Mr. Home (Introduct., 9th ed., vol.
v. p. 388), only states the truth when he de.
signates it as ' an elaborate and very useful work, of which later writers have not failed to avail themselves.' Out of this large work two smaller ones have been formed, with considerable advan tage in point of method and utility-1. A Per Key on the Revelation of St. john; newly modelled, abridged, and rendered plain, etc., by Peter Lancas ter, vicar of Bowden, Cheshire, 4to, 1730. 2. A Dictionary of Prophetic Symbols, which was re printed in 1842 in an Svo volume, with a memoir of Daubuz and preface, by Mr. Matthew Ilaber shon. Much commendation has been bestowed on the author respecting this department of his learned labours : There is no commentator (says the author of the Illustrations of Prophecy), who can be compared with Daubuz for the accuracy, the care, and the consistency with which he has ex plained the prophetic symbols.' From the title page of Daubuz's exposition, as we have tran scribed it, it will be at once seen that he belongs to the Historical or Chronological school of Apo calyptic interpretation. As a result of his system, Daubuz has brought together a vast amount of historical and antiquarian information from all sources which bear on the subject, so that his reader cannot fail to profit from his learning, even when he cannot accept his conclusions. A brief account of Daubuz's exposition (confessedly inade quate, however) may be read in Mr. Elliott's liOrtE APOCalypikee [ad ed.], vol. iv. pp. 457-460. Daubuz, whose name bears on his title-page the English academical degree of M. A., is said to have died in the year 1740 (Rose's Biagi: Dictionary, vii. 26. 1).—P. H.