John Trapp on John 18:38
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John18:38
Verſe 38. What's truth?] In a ſcornefull, profane manner. As indeed profane ſpirits cannot heare favoury words, but they turne them off with a ſcorne. What's truth? Fastidientis atque irridentis vox, non interrogantis, ſaith Beza. Some thinke it is, vox admirantis. As if Pilate wondered at Chriſt, that when his life was in queſtion he ſhould talke of truth, q. d. Your life is in danger, and talke you of truth? Politicians thinke Religion niceneſſe. How ever it was, or with what minde ſoever, out hee goes, and ſtaies not an anſwer: As Saul bad the Prieſt bring to him the Arke, but, ere that could be done, drawes forth his Armie, 1 Sam. 14.
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