Verse 14. And when they were come to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉]
That was, the next day after the transfiguration, Luk 9. and in that nick of time, when the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 could neither cure the lunatick, nor
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.
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- 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.
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- Trapp, John, 1601-1669.
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- London, :: Printed by A.M. for John Bellamie, at the sign of the three golden-Lions near the Royall-Exchange,
- M.DC.XLVII. [1647]
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63067.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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answer their adversaries, who had now sport enough to see them brought into the briers, and therefore jeered them before the people to some purpose. Most opportunely therefore if ever, comes Christ to their succour, as it were out of an engine, and both cures the childe and confounds the Pharisees. His late honour hindred him not from doing his office: his incomparable felicity made him not forget poor Josephs misery. He knew he was much 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and waited for, and therefore makes haste from the mount to the multitude.
Kneeling down to him]
Some understand the word of such an humble gesture of catching the party petitioned by the knees or feet, as the Shunammite used to the Prophet, the Shulamite to her spouse, and Thetis to Iupiter, when she sued to him in her sons behalf.
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〈◊〉〈◊〉. 9. 15.
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