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 20. The Foxes have holes, &c.]

q. d. Exigua mihi sunt subsidia aut praesidia. Nudus opum, sed cui coelum terra{que} pa∣terent, as Ennius said of Archimedes. The great Architect of the world, had not a house to put his head in; but emptied himself* 1.1 of all, and became poor, to make us rich, not in goods, but in grace,* 1.2 not in worldly wealth but in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 treasure. Say we with that* 1.3 Father, Christi paupertas meum est patrimonium: prefer the re∣proach* 1.4 of Christ before the treasures of Egypt: and if, besides and* 1.5 with Christ, we have food and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, let us therewith rest con∣tent. Say we have no house on earth, we have one in heaven not* 1.6 made with hands. Those good souls dwelt in dens and caves of* 1.7 the earth, yea wandred about in sheepskins and goatskins, that might have rustled in their silks and velvets, that might (〈◊〉〈◊〉-like) have vaunted themselves on their stately tur∣rets and Palaces, if they would have let goe Christ. But that, they knew well had been to make a fooles bargain.

But the Sonne of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, &c.]

So he stiles himself, either to note the truth of his humanity, or the depth of his abasement, the Son of God became the son of man, which was, as one said in a like case,

to fall from the Court to the cart, from a Pallace to a gallows. Among all the Prophets, Ezekiel is most frequently stiled son of man, and that purposely; to keep him low amidst his many rare raptures and revelations. The Heathen, when they would set forth a man miserable indeed, they called him 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, thrice a man.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.2

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 2. 7.
• * 1.3

  2 Cor. 8 9.
• * 1.4

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.5

  Heb. 11. 26.
• * 1.6

  1 Tim. 6. 8.
• * 1.7

  Heb. 11. 37, 38.