John Trapp on Luke 9:55-57

Verse 55. But he turned and rebuked them] He did it not slightly, and by the by, but seriously and on set purpose: so must we rebuke and rebate our vindictive spirits, our unruly lusts, when like kine in a strait they rush and ride, one upon the back of another. Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of] Not of Elias his spirit, as ye imagine: this wild-fire was never kindled on Gods hearth, as his zeal was: you are men of another mould then Elias. He was a Minister of indignation, you of consolation: his actions fit not you, because your persons are not like his: It is a [non-Latin text not transcribed] Arisiot. rare thing to be of an heroicall Spirit saith the Moralist. Every man cannot be an Elias or a Phineas, Numb. 25. 8. To that height of heat, ordinary mens tempers ate not raised.