John Trapp on Luke 3:19

Verse 19. For Herodias his brother Philips wife] Whom it was not lawfull for Herod to have, though Philip were dead, as Josephus saith he was. This was the case so much controvertedJoseph. Antiq. lib. [illegible: 1 word]. cap. 7. here and beyond Seas in Henry the eighths time, touching his marriage with his brother Arthurs widow, by Papall dispensation. The King had first a scruple cast into his mind about it by the Bishop of Baion the French Embassadour, who came to him to consult of a Marriage between the Lady Mary, and the Duke of Orleans, whether Mary were legitimate, &c. This gave occasion to the casting the Popes authority out of England. Mary was forced, for fear of death, to renounce the Bishop of Rome, and to acknowledgeCamdens Elisab. Introd. her Mothers marriage to have bin incestuous and unjust, &c. Though afterwards, she set up the Pope here again: and it was her policy, so to get, and keep the Crown upon [illegible: 1 word] head. And for all the evills, which Herod, &c.] John reproved him with the same liberty that Herod committed them. So did John Chrysostome, [illegible: 1 word]. Hist. [illegible: 1 word]. Cent. 5. [illegible: 1 word]. 1. cap. 6. the great ones of his time. Ità quidem ut etiam Ducum, Eutropii & Gainae, imò ipsius Imperatoris errata reprehenderet: He spared not Dukes, Princes, nay not the Emperour himself.