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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Bible. -- N.T. -- Gospels -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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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 June 16, 2024.
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Verse 28. Coming out of the tombes]
There the devil kept them, the more to terrifie them with the fear of death all their lives long, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 2. 15. Appius Claudius (as Capella witnesseth) could not abide to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈◊〉〈◊〉, because it re∣presented the gnashing of the teeth of dying men. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gives another reason hereof, that the devil hereby sought to per∣swade silly people, that dead mens souls were turned into devils, and walked (as they call it) especially about tombes and sepul∣chres.* 1.1 Thus he oft appeared to people, in times of Popery, in the shape of some of their 〈◊〉〈◊〉 kindred, and haunted them till he had made them sing a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and such a soul. Melancthon tells a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of an Aunt of his, that had her hand burnt to a coal by the devil, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to her in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of her 〈◊〉〈◊〉 husband. And Pareus relates an example (much like this poor demoniack in the text) of a bakers daughter in their countrey, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and* 1.2〈◊〉〈◊〉 up in a cave she had dig'd as in a grave, to her dying day.