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 39. And knew not]

i.e. They took no kuowledge of* 1.1 〈◊〉〈◊〉 predictions, or their own peril. Their wits they had buried in their guts, their brains in their bellies (As of the Asse∣fish it is said, that contrary to all other living creatures he hath* 1.2 his heart in his belly) whoredom, wine, and new wine take away the heart, Hos. 4, 11. Carnall sins disable nature, and so set men in a greater distance from grace, which is seated in the powers of nature. I read of some desperate wretches, that drinking toge∣ther,* 1.3 when one of them had drunk himself stark dead, the other no whit warned by that fearfull example of Gods wrath, powred his part of drink into the dead mans belly.

And took them 〈◊〉〈◊〉 away]

Men are never lesse 〈◊〉〈◊〉, then when they are most secure. Babylon bore it self bold upon the twenty years provision laid up aforehand, to stand out a siege. When it* 1.4 was neverthelesse taken by Cyrus, some part of the city would* 1.5 not know or beleeve of three daies after, that there was any such matter.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Quod vel invi∣ti norant, non agnoverant.
• * 1.2

  Arist de 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.3

  In quodam e∣piscopatu pota∣verunt aliqui, &c. Joh. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. loc. com. p 244.
• * 1.4

  Herodot. lib. 1.
• * 1.5

  Arist, Polit. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3.