John Trapp on Luke 15:13-15
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Luke15:13-15
Verse 13. Gathered all together] Convasatis veluti omnibus. With riotous living] [non-Latin text not transcribed], Not caring to save any part, [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed], unsaveable. nihil reservans, imò seipsum non servans, being such as safety it self could not save: whence the Latines call such a man Perditum, an undone person. Such were those of whom Seneca saith, that singulis auribus bina aut terna dependent patrimonia, hanged two or three good Lordships at their eares. And such are those amongst us that turn lands into laces, greatH. S. millies in [illegible: 1 word] congessit. [illegible: 1 word]. rents into great ruffes, &c. The expences of Apicius his kitchin amounted to more then two millions of gold. He having eaten up his estate, and finding by his account that he had no more then 200000. crowns remaining, thought himself poor, and that this sufficed not to maintain his luxury: whereupon he drank down a glasse of poyson.
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