A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.

Verse 38. Then certain of the Scribes and Pharisees]

〈◊〉〈◊〉 not these, as one said of Nero, Os ferreum, cor plumbeum, an iron face, a leaden heart, that could call for a signe after so many signes? But it is a signe from heaven they would have (as Moses called for Manna from thence, Samuel for rain, Elias for fire, &c.) and much the near they would have been, should our Saviour have gratified them. But he never meant it. They were now so clearly convinced of their blasphemy, that they had nothing to say for themselves, but fawningly to call him Master, whom before they had called Beelzebub: and to pretend themselves to be willing to learn, if they might see a signe. They could not see wood for trees, as they say. And who so blinde as he that will not see. Sic* 1.1 fit, ubi homines majorem vitae, partem in 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, ut 〈◊〉〈◊〉 solem quafi supervacuum fastidiant, saith Seneca. Men that have lived long in the dark, may think the Sun 〈◊〉〈◊〉;

Notes

• * 1.1

  Senec. Epist.