John Trapp on Matthew 1:7

Verse 7. And Solomon begat Roboam.] A childe of fourty years old, a soft-spirited man, the Scripture notes him, a [non-Latin text not transcribed], easily drawn away by evil counsell. Green wood will be warping. Of him it might be said, as once it was of a certain Prince in Germany, Esset alius, si esset apud alios. But a man would wonder, that [illegible: 1 word]. by so many wives Solomon should have but one sonne, and him none of the wisest neither. Herôum filij [illegible: 1 word]. He might (likely) bewail his own unhappines in Rehoboam, Eccles. 2. 18, 19. as he is thought to do in Jeroboam, Pro. 20. 21. His mother was an Ammonitesse: the birth followes the belly: the conclusion followes the weaker proposition. And Roboam begat Abiah] A man not right, yet better then his father: and for this to be commended, that he held and pleaded the true worship and service of God as the beauty and bulwark of his Kingdom: relying also upon God, he discomfited Jeroboam; Deo confisi, nunquam confusi. And Abia begat Asa.] A better son, sprung of the seed of bad Abia, of the soil of [illegible: 1 word] Maachah, whom St. Jerome makes to be a worshipper of that abominable idol Priapus, otherwise called Baal-peor. For thus he translates that, 1 King. 15. Insuper & Numb. 25. 5. Maachan matrem [illegible: 1 word] amovit, ne esset princeps in sacris Priapi, In 4 [illegible: 1 word]. & in luco [illegible: 1 word]. Nos, pudore pulso, stamus sub Iove, coleis apertis, said the worshippers of Priapus. The people that [illegible: 1 word] D. [illegible: 1 word] Apolog. thereto (the sacrifice being ended) all stepped into a thicket, which was alwaies planted neer the altar of this God; and there, like brute beasts, [illegible: 2 words] satisfied their lusts: thereby, as they conceived, best pleasing their God. This villany Maachah may seem to have been guilty of, and was therefore worthily removed by her son Asa, from [illegible: 1 word] Queen. Sedes prima, & [illegible: 1 word] ima, suit not well together. Dignitas in indigno est ornamentum in luto, saith Salvian. Honour in a [illegible: 1 word] man, is as a jewell [illegible: 1 word] Gold in a swines snout. [non-Latin text not transcribed]