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John Trapp on John 11:50

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John11:50

Verſe 50. That one man ſhould die for the people] A brutiſh and bloody ſentence: as if evil might be done, that good may come thereof. So, when Farellus, that worthy Reformer, came firſt to Geneva, and was convented there by the Biſhop, as a diſturber of the publike peace, one of the Popiſh Aſſeſſors cried out, Away with this peſtilent Lutheran, better he periſh then the town be diſquieted. To whom Farellus anſwered, Noli Caiaphae voces, ſed Dei verba proferre, Speak not in the language of Caiaphas, Soultet. Annal. Tom. 2. p. 504. but in the word of God, &c.

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