John Trapp on John 7:50-51

Verſe 50. Nicodemus ſaith unto them] Good bloud will not belye it ſelf: [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Herodot. love, as fire, will not long be hid. Croeſus his dumb ſon could not but ſpeak, to ſee his father ready to be ſlain. Nicodemus, though hitherto a night-bird, now ſhews himſelf for Chriſt in a Councell. How far had Iudas outſtripped Nicodemus, till it came to the upſhot? Nicodemus was only a night-profeſſour, Iudas in the ſight of all. Nicodemus a ſlow-ſchollar, Iudas a forward Preacher. Yet at laſt, when Iudas betrayed Chriſt in the night; Nicodemus faithfully profeſſed him in the day, &c.