John Trapp on John 3:1

CHAP. III.

EIther a chieftain of the Phariſees, as he was, Luk. 14.1. Or one of the Sanhedrin, one of the ſeventy Seniours, whoſe learning hung in their light, 1 Cor. 2.8. Yet was neither learned Nathaneel, nor Nicodemus a Maſter of Iſrael excluded from Chriſts diſcipline (ſaith Joan. de Turrecremata;) leſt if he had admitted ſimple men only, Ne ſi ſolos ſimplices vocaſſet, credi poſſit quod fuiſſent ex ſimplicitate decepti [non-Latin text not transcribed] quaſi [non-Latin text not transcribed] Plato. it might have been thought they were deceived through their ſimplicity.