GRABE, JOHN EARNEST, an eminent scholar and divine, was born at Konigsberg, July to, 1666, and educated at tbe university of the same, where his father was professor of divinity and history. Having devoted himself to the study of the Fathers, he was led to question the validity of the orders of the clergy of the Lutheran church, and felt dis posed to join the Church of Rome. Advised to visit England to have his doubts resolved, he was well received there by William III., who conferred a pension on. hint. He became a minister of the Church of England, and was made D.D. of the university of Oxford, 1706. He died 17'4 in the forty-fifth year of his age. His theological views were of the Anglo-Catholic type. Ile was the author of many learned works, of which those relating to Biblical science are subjoined :-1. Epistola ad clarissinium virum, yo. ; gad ostenditur Libri yudicum Genninanz LXX. Inter pretum Versionem tam esse, quam AfS. Cod. illex• andrinus exhibet ; Ronzananz autem editionent, quoad dictum librzem, ab did prorsus diversam, atque ean dem cum Hesychiand esse ; Sztbnexa sunt tria Novo TQP 6 Edition's Specimina, Oxonii, 1705, 410. 2. Vetus Testamention Grocum ex Versthite
LXX. Interpretum, ex antiquissimo MS. Codice Alexana'rino accurate description, et ope alionim ex emplarium ac priscoriem Scriptorum, prosertinz vero Hexaplaris Editionis Origeniaizo, ono:datum tape suppletum, etc., Oxonii, 1707, 1709, '719, 1720, 4 vols. fol., and 8 vols. Svo. The whole of this great work Dr. G. prepared for the press, but only lived to publish the first and fourth vols. ; the second vol. was edited by Francis Lee, M.D. ; and the third by W. Wigan, L.L.D. The prolego mena contain a treasure of sacred criticism.' 3. Dissertatio a'e Variis Vitits Septuaginta Interpre tum Versioni ante .b'. Originis ovum illatis, et roue diis ab ipso in Hexaplari ejusdem Versionis Editione adhibitis, deque hujus editionis reliquiis tam Manu scriptis quani pirlo excusis, Oxonii, 1710, 4to• 4. Collatio Codicis Cottoniani Geneseos Editione Romana, etc., edita ab Henrico Owen, Londini, 1778, 8vo.—I. J.