John Trapp on John 7:53

Verſe 53. And every man went, &c.] Nicodemus, with one word ſeaſonably put in, diſſolves the Councell, and keeps them, for this time, from attempting againſt Chriſt. See what one man may do againſt a miſchievous multitude otherwhiles; [illegible: 1 word] Ille regit dictis animos, & pector a mulcet. What a ſtickler was Nehamiah at Ieruſalem, Paphnutius at the Nicene Councell, Wicliffe, Hus, Luther, in their generations? Its good to be doing, though there be few or none to ſecond us: and though we be asked, as that good Biſhop Liberius was by the Arian Emperour Constantius, Theodoret. lib. 2. cap. 16. Quota pars es tu orbis terrarum? It is ſaid of Luther, quod unus homo ſolus totius orbis impetum ſuſtinuerit.