John Trapp on John 1:11

Verſe 11. He came unto his own,] His peculiar pickt people; as touching the election, beloved for the Fathers ſake (Ownneſſe makes love) though the more he loved, the leſſe he was beloved. Rom. 11.28. This may be the beſt mans caſe, 2 Cor, 12.15. Learn we to deſerve well of the moſt undeſerving. God ſhines upon the unthankfull alſo, Luk. 6.35. Chriſt came to the ſtiffe-necked, and uncircumciſed in heart and ears, Act. 7.51. His comfort was (and may be ours) Though Iſrael be not gathered, yet I ſhalbe glorious, &c. Iſa. 49.5.

And his own received him not.] Nay, they peremptorily and pertinaciouſly denied the holy One, and the Juſt; and deſired a murtherer to be given unto them. For the which their inexpiable guilt, Acts 31 14. they are, as it were caſt out of the world by a common conſent of Nations, being a dejected and deſpiſed people. Howbeit, we long, and looke daily for their converſion, their reſurrection, Rom. 11.15. as Saint Paul calleth it. And Augustine argueth out of the words, Abba, Father; that there ſhall one day be a conſent of Jewes and Gentiles, in the worſhip of one true God. There are that ſay out of Daniel, 12, 11. That this will fall out, Anno Dom. 1650. Mr. Hout. Mr. Caſe. Fiat, Fiat.