John Trapp on John 9:22-23

Verſe 22. Put out of the Synagogue.] This was that kinde of excommunication they called Niddui or ſeparation; and ſuch were by the Greeks called [non-Latin text not transcribed], and [non-Latin text not transcribed]. There were two other more heavy kinde of excommunications in uſe among the Jews, Cherem, and Samatha or Maranatha, which they derive as low as from Henoch, Jude 14. The Heathens alſo had their publike execrations, not raſhly to be uſed againſt any: Eſt enim execratio res triſtis, & mali ominis, ſaith Plutarch: who therefore highly commends that Athenian Prieſt, that being commanded by the people to curſe Alcibiades, refuſed to do it. That Archflamen of Rome, the Pope, is like a waſp: Cum pontiſex Rom. diras in [illegible: 1 letter]u livic. 12. Gall. Regem evomeret; Atqui (a[illegible: 1 letter]t rex) Precandi ille, non imprecandi cauſa pontiſex conſtitutus eſt. Firron. lib. 2. de geſt is Gallor. no ſooner angry, but out comes a ſting (an excommunication) which, being once out, is like a fools dagger, ratling and ſnapping without an edge, &c. It was grown to a Proverb among our fore-fathers, In nomine Domini incipit omne malum. John Cornford, (one of the ſix laſt that were burnt in England for the true Religion) when he heard himſelfe and his fellows excommunicated, ſtirred with a vehement zeal of God, and proceeding in a more true excommunication againſt the Papiſts, in the name of them all, pronounced ſentence againſt them in theſe words, In the name of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and by the power of his holy Spirit, and the authority of his holy Catholike and Apoſtolike Church, we do give here into the hands of Satan to be deſtroyed, the bodies of all thoſe blaſphemers and hereticks, that do maintain any errour againſt his moſt holy word, or do condemn his moſt holy truth for hereſie, to the maintaining of any falſe Church, or feigned Religion: ſo that by this thy juſt judgement, Act. an I Mon, fol. 1862. moſt mighty God, againſt thine adverſaries, thy true Religion may be known, to thy glory, and our comforts, and to the edifying of all our Nation. Good Lord ſo be it.