John Trapp on Luke 2:35

Verse 35. Yea a sword shall peirce, &c.] This confutes that of [illegible: 1 word]; Mulier nulla cordicitus dolet ex animo. The word A. Gil. l. 10. c. 25. here rendred sword properly signifies a long Thracian [illegible: 1 word]. That the thoughts of many hearts] As they are also now in these discriminating, shedding times. Affliction tryeth men who are Crocodiles, Spunges, Camelions, &c. Before these dayes cameAct. and Mon. fol. 1482. (said Master Bradford Martyr) how many thought of themselves, that they had been in Gods bosome, and so were taken, and would be taken in the world? But now we see whose they are: for to whom we obey, his servants we are, &c. In the Palatinate scarce one man in twenty stood out: but fell to Popery, as fast as leaves in autumne.