John Trapp on Colossians 2:8

Verſe 8. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Leſt any man spoil you] A Metaphor either from ſheep ſtealers or plunderers. Seducers plunder men of their precious ſouls. They take them priſoners, 2 Tim. 3.6. They make merchandize of them, 2 Pet. 2.3. or bring them into bondage, ſmiting them on the face, 2 Cor. 11.20.

I brough Philoſophy] In the year of Chriſt 230. the Artemonites, a certain kinde of heretikes, corrupted Scripture out of Aristotle and Theophrastus, turning all into Queſtions, as afterwards the Schoolmen alſo did, that evil generation of dung-hill Divines, as one calleth them. Tertullian not unfi[illegible: 1 letter]ly faith, That the Philoſophers were the Patriarchs of the heretikes. Not but that there is an excellent and neceſſary uſe of Philoſophy truly ſo called: but the Apoſtle meaneth it of their idle ſpeculations and vain deceits, thoſe aiery nothings, as the Apoſtle expounds himſelf. See the Note on Rom. 1.21, 22.

And not after Chriſt] The Gentiles then could not be ſaved by their philoſophy without Chriſt. And yet not only the Divines of Cullen, A[illegible: 1 letter]rippa. B[illegible: 1 letter]laeus. ſet forth a book concerning the ſalvation of Ariſtotle, whom they called Chriſts fore-runner in naturals, as John Baptiſt was in ſupernaturals: but alſo ſome of the School-Doctours, grave men (ſaith Acoſta) do promiſe men ſalvation without the knowledge of Chriſt.