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 27. In the glory of his father with his Angels]

Great will be the glory of the man Christ Jesus at his second coming. He shall come riding on the clouds (not that he needs them, but to shew* 1.1 his soveraignty) environed with flaming fire, mounted on a stately* 1.2 throne, attended by an innumerable company of Angels (for they shall all come with him, not one of them left in heaven) who shall minister unto him in this great work irresistibly, justly, speedily, Rev. 15. 6. Christ himself shining in the midst of them, with such an exuberancy and excesse of glory, as that the Sun shall seem but a snuff to him. This glory, howsoever it is here called, the glory of the father, because he is the fountain, as of the Deity, so of the di∣vine glory wherewith Christ is crowned, Phil. 2. 9. 1 Tim. 3. 16. yet is it his own glory (as he is one with the Father and the holy Ghost) and so it is called, Mat. 25. 31. Joh. 17. 5. Now if Israel so shouted for joy of Solomons coronation, and in the day of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 e∣spousals,* 1.3 that the earth rang again. If the Grecians so cried out* 1.4 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Soter, to Flaminius the Roman Generall, when he had set them at liberty, that the very birds, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 at the noise, fell down to the earth: Oh how great shall be the Saints joy to see Christ the King in his beauty and bravery at the last judgment?

Notes

• * 1.1

  2 Thess 1. 8.
• * 1.2

  Mat. 25 31.
• * 1.3

  1 King 1.
• * 1.4

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.