John Trapp on Matthew 1:15

Verse 15. And Eliud begat Eleazar, &c.] These might be private [illegible: 1 word], some of them, as Ioseph and Mary were: it being the care and endeavour of [illegible: 1 word] Herods, and those afore, that [illegible: 1 word] the Iews in subjection, to suppresse, as much as might be, the posterity of David: at least to keep them in a low condition; for as much as it was a certain and received truth among that people, that [illegible: 1 word] the Prince, Dan. 9. 26. should shortly come of that family. And this was that that held up the fainting hearts of the good people of those sad times, (when prophecie failed them, and prosperity too,) they looked for the Desire of all Nations, for the Consolation of Israel, having little else to releive them, for the externall means: Unlesse it were that [non-Latin text not transcribed], that eccho heard in the Temple, they tell us of, which served them for an oracle: And the miracle of the pool of Bethesda granted by God to strengthen them in the true worship of God, under the persecution of Antiochus and other tyrants, till the daies of John Baptist, and the Lord Christ.