John Trapp on Ezekiel 38:12

Ver. 12. To take a ſpoil] Heb. to ſpoil the ſpoil, and to prey the prey. The Antichriſtian rout are all for robbing and ravaging. What vaſte ſums of mony raked the Pope once out of England, which was therefore truely and trimly called by Pope Innocent the fourth, hortus deliciarum & puteus inexhauſtus, his delicate garden, and pit that could not be drawn dry.

To turn thine hand] To plunder them to the very bones, as they ſay. Time was when the Popes receivers here left not ſo much money in the whole Kingdom, as they either carried with them, or ſent to Rome before them, Of this Papal expilation King John heavily complained, and could get no remedy: but Henry the eighth would bear it no longer. England is no more a babe (ſaid he in his Proteſtation againſt the Pope:) there is no man here but now he knoweth that they do fooliſhly that give gold for lead,Act. & Mon. 990. more weight of that then they receive of this, &c.