John Trapp on 2 Timothy 3:1

CHAP. III. Verſe 1. Perillous times]

GR. Hard times. Hard hearts make hard times. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Ejuſixodi tempora d[illegible: 1 letter]ſcripſit (ſaith Caſaubon of Tacitus, and the ſame may we ſay of St Paul) quibus nulla unquam aut vir[illegible: 2 letters]tum ſteriliora, aut virtutibus inimiciora: He deſcribeth theſe last and looſest times of the world, barren of vertues, but abounding with vices. There was never any but Noah, that with two faces, ſaw both before and behinde. But that ancient of daies, to whom all things are preſent, hath here told us, that the laſt ſhall be the worſt.