John Trapp on John 18:7

Verſe 7. Then asked he them again.] Though ſtruck to the earth, they deſiſt not: So the Sodomites, ſmitten with blindeneſſe, grope for the door. Pharaoh in that palpable darkneſſe, rageth againſt God, and menaceth Moſes, Monoceros interim poteſt, capi non poteſt: Stubborn men will ſooner break then bend. Man, Solinus. faith Polibyus, is held the wrſeſt, but to me he ſeemeth the moſt fooliſh of all creatures: for they, where they have miſcarried once, will not eaſily be driven thither again, Solus home ab evo adaevum peccat fere in y dem: Only man will not be warned, though he have ſoundly ſmarted. We load an Aſſe (ſaith Bernard) and he cares not, becauſe he is an Aſſe, Caver quantum poteſt, quta vitam amct, & mortem timet. and born to bear burdens: But if you would drive him into a ditch, or thruſt him into the fire, he ſhuns it as well as he can, becauſe he loves life, and fears death. Yet ſilly man fears not his eternall bane.