Matthew Poole and continuators on John 2:17

17 And his disciples remembred that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up .

The Disciples, as well as the rest of the people there present, could not but be astonished at this so strange a thing, to see a single Person, and he in no repute but as a private Person, to make a Whip, and with authority drive the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple, and no body to oppose him; but they remembred the words of David, Psal. 69.9. Some think that Iohn here reports what they did after Christs Resurrection; and indeed, who so considereth the following part of the Gospel History, would think that it were so; for they did not seem so early to have had a perswasion of Christs Divine nature, nor that he was the Messiah. Or if they at this time remembred it, and apprehended that Christ was the Son of David, the Impression seems to have worn off. It is a greater Question, whether Psal. 69. (from whence this quotation is,) is to be understood of Christ, properly and literally? Or meerly as the Antitype to David, of whom that Psalm is literally to be understood. Some of the Lutheranes think that Psalm primarily concerned Christ. Mr. Calvin, and others, think it onely concerned Christ as David's antitype: The former for their Opinion, take notice of the frequent Quotation of it in the New Testament, Matth. 27.48. Ioh. 19.28. Acts 1.20. Rom. 15.3. The other urge, that there are some things in that Psalm which cannot agree to Christ. The matter is not much; Zeal is nothing but a warmth of Love and Anger. It is good to be Zealous; yea, swallowed up with Zeal in a good cause; but men must take heed of the pharisaical Zeal, not according to Knowledg; Christ was zealous, but the cause was good.