John Trapp on Matthew 1:4

Verse 4. Aram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Naasson] Who was hang'd up in the wildernesse, among [illegible: 1 word] rest of the Rulers, for folly committed with their mistresses of Moab. Neither scaped the common sort scot-free, for they fell in one [illegible: 1 word] three and twenty thousand, saith St Paul. Four and [illegible: 1 word] 1 Cor. [illegible: 1 word]. 8. thousand, saith Moses; whereof a thousand were the chief Princes, the other were inferiours, provoked to sin by their example. But why doth the Apostle insist in the speciall punishment of the people? to shew, saith learned Iunius, how frigid and slender their [illegible: 1 word]. lib 2. [illegible: 1 word]. 37. defence is, how short their covering, who plead and pretend for their sins the example of their superiours. And Naasson begat Salmon] Called 1 Chron. 2. Salmah. There was also a Mount of this name (as touching the sound, though with difference of one letter in the Originall) whither Abimelech and his host resorted, Iudg. 9. 48. And [illegible: 1 word] the Psalmist speaketh; When the Almighty scattered Kings, they shall be white as snow in Salmon. Now it is storied of Andronicus, the old Emperour of Constantinople, that, all things going crosse with him, he took a Psalter into his hand, to resolve his doubtfull minde: And opening the same, as if it were of that heavenly oracle to askeTurk. Histo. fol. 164. counsell, he lighted upon this verse, and was thereby comforted and directed what to do for his greatest safety. To be white as snow Psal. 68. 14. explained. in Salmon, is to have joy in affliction, light in darknesse. Salmon signifieth shady and darke: so this mount was with dens and glimnes; but made lightsome by snow. Hoe [illegible: 1 word] obitèr.