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John Trapp on John 7:11-12

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John7:11-12

Verſe 11. Where is he?] Not, where is Jeſus? they could not finde in their hearts to call him by his name, they were ſo full of malice againſt him. So Joſephs brethren called him not Ioſeph, but the Dreamer: Saul asked not for David, but the Son of Ieſſe. Act. and Mon. fol. 810. After Stephen Brune the Martyr was put to death, his adverſaries commanded it to be cried, That none ſhould make any more mention of him, under pain of hereſic. And ubicunque invenitur nomen Calvini, Luk 6.22. delcatur, ſaith the Index expargatorius. But what ſaith our Saviour, Bleſſed are ye, when men ſhall hate you, Tacit. Annal. and caſt out your name as evil, for the Son of mans ſake. The wiſe Hiſtorian obſerved, that the Statues of Brutus and Caſſius, eo praefulgebant, quodnon viſebantur. And Cato ſaid, he had rather men ſhould queſtion why he had no Statue or Monument erected to him, then why he had?

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