John Trapp on Luke 2:34

Verse 34. And for a sign, &c.] For a but-mark, against whom his enemies shall shoot the shafts of their gain-sayings: Like as at the sack of Constantinople, the Image of the [illegible: 1 word] was taken [illegible: 1 word] by the Turks, and a Turks cap put upon the head thereof,Turk. Hist. [illegible: 1 word] 347. and so set up, and shot at with their arrowes, calling it the God of the Christians.