John Trapp on Joel 3:5

Verſe 5. Becauſe yee have taken my ſilver, &c.] Sacriledge is a ſecond ſinne they here ſtand charged with. Yee have taken, that is, taken away, (by which obfervation, ye ſhall eaſily reconcile the Pſalmiſt, Pſal. 68.19. with the Apoſtle, Eph. 4.8. ſaith Tarnouius here) my ſilver and my gold, Aurum Theloſanum. veſſels conſecrated to mine uſe and ſervice: or mine, that is, my peoples, whom ye have robbed: but it ſhall not thrive with you; it ſhall prove as the gold of Tholouſe, fatall to them that had any part of it: or as Achans wedge, that cleft his body and ſoul aſunder

theſe ye have carried into your Temples,] or Palaces, even my goodly pleaſant things. my deſireable goods, either to adorne your houſes, or your idols, to your own bane, as Belſhazzar. It is ſurely a ſnare to a man, Prov. 20.25. who devoureth dedicated things: that bowſeth in the bowles of the Sanctuary. And it was a ſad complaint of Luther, that even in the reformed Churches, Pariſhes and Schools were robbed of their due maintenance: as if they meant to ſtarve us all. Luth. in Gen. 47. The like ſaith Gualther in his Homily upon this Text: Non deſunt pſeudo-evangelici, ſaith He, There want not ſuch falſe-Goſpellers amongſt us, who reſtore not the Church her wealth, pulled out of the Papiſts fingers: but make good that ſaying of One, Poſſidebant Papiſtae, poſſident Rapiſtae; Papiſts had Church-livings, and now Rapiſts have gotten them: like as a good Authour obſerveth upon the battle of Montlecherye, Comin. l. 1. c. 4. that ſome loſt their livings for running away, and they were given to thoſe that ran ten miles further.