John Trapp on Matthew 1:6

Verse 6. And Iesse begat David the King.] But that was not his chief title: He gloried more in stlling [illegible: 1 word] the servant of the Lord, Psal. 36. 1: &c. So Theodosius esteemed it a greater honour, that he was membrum Christi, then Caput Imperij. Numa etiam [non-Latin text not transcribed], existimabat. Numa held thePlut. in [illegible: 1 word]. service of God the highest honour. David the King begat Salomon] Whom Bellarmine reckoneth for a reprobate: but (besides that he was Gods Corculum, and by him called Iedidiah,) he calleth himself in his sacred Retractations, Coheleth: which being interpreted, The Preacher, is a word of the foeminine termination, and by some rendered Aggregata, where understanding the substantive Anima, they conclude here-hence, that he was renewed by repentance, and reunited to the Church. Of her that had been the wife of Uriah.] His best children he [illegible: 5 words], [illegible: 1 word] in [illegible: 1 word]. Aug. had by this wife: [illegible: 1 word] fruit of his humiliation doubtlesse. The barren womens children are observed to have been the best, as Isaac, Samuel, Iohn Baptist, &c. for like reason.