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 22. But when he heard that Archelaus]

Neither good egge, nor good bird, as they say. Caracalla, (saith Dio) nihil 〈◊〉〈◊〉 boni, quia id non didicerat, quod ipse fatebatur: never thought of any good, for he had never learned it. No more had this Archelaus. Pope Paul the third, when his sonne Farnesis had committed an unspeakable violence on the Person of Cosmus Chaerius Bishop of Fanum, aud then poisoned him, held himself excused, that he could say, Haec vitia, me non 〈◊〉〈◊〉, didicit: He never learned this of the father. But Archelaus though he could never attaine to his fathers craft, yet he had learnt his cruelty. Feirce he was, but foolish; savage, but silly, a slug, a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, an evil beast: wherefore the Jews soone rebelled against him; and Augustus (after ten yeares abuse of his autho∣rity) 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him to Vienna, or, as others say, to Lions in France: setting up in his stead his brother Herod, the same that derided and set at 〈◊〉〈◊〉 our Saviour at his passion, as S^t Hierome writeth.