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 1. The first day of the week]

GReek, of the Sabbaths. One day of seven is due to God of ne∣cessity. This the Scripture calls by an excellency the Sabbath,* 1.1 day without a difference: as if it were the eldest brother to all 〈◊〉〈◊〉 daies of the week, which is called here and elsewhere Sabbath; in the plurall, Psal. 24. title, A Psalm of David. To this the Greek addeth, Of the first day of the week, which now is the* 1.2 Christian Sabbath, called the Lords day, in honour of Christ, and in a thankfull remembrance of his resurrection. See the Note on, Joh. 20. 1.

To see the sepulcher]

To see what the Pharisees had done with the Lords body the day before (for they knew they had been tam∣pering, and feared the worst, as love is suspitious) and to bring the spices, which by an easie errour, they had prepared, Luke 24. 1. They knew not, belike, that Joseph and Nicodemus had been at that cost and pains before them; neither did any of them con∣sider that what they did herein was superfluous, for that it was* 1.3 impossible for Gods holy one to see corruption. But he is plea∣sed to passe by our well-meant weaknesses, where the heart is upright.

Notes

• * 1.1

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• * 1.2

  Revel 1.
• * 1.3

  Act. 2.