John Trapp on Luke 2:18

Verse 18. Wondred at those things] Yet made little benefit of what they heard. All the world wondred after the Beast, Revel. 13. 3. And it was a wonder there was no more wondering at the birth of our Saviour; if that were true especially, that (besides the Wise-mens starre, Mat. 2. and the Angelicall musick in the air, &c.) among the Gentiles a voyce was heard, The great God is now about to be born: And that at Rome, the likenesse of a woman carrying a child in her arms was seen about the sunne, &c. These things are storied. Polydor Virgil reports out of Orosius, Polyd. Virg. lib. 4. cap. 1. that on the very day of Christs nativity, Augustus Caesar caused proclamation that no man should stile him Lord any longer, Manifesto praesagio majoris Dominatus, qui tum in terris ortus esset: as presaging a greater then himself then born.