John Trapp on John 15:18

Verſe 18. If the world hate you, &c.] As it will, becauſe it is condemned by your contrary practice, and is carried on by a contrary principle. Moab was irked becauſe of Iſrael, or, did fret and vex at them, Numb. 22.3, 4. Bats ſlie againſt the light. Some barbarous Nations curſe the Sun, when he ſhines hot upon them, and ſhoot up their arrows againſt it.

Ye know that it hated me firſt] Shall we thinke to ſpeed better then our betters? Elias is not better then his fathers. Luther was angry with thoſe that ſet forth his ſufferings, ſith they were nothing to the ſufferings of Chriſt. All our troubles are but as the ſlivers and chips of his croſſe.