John Trapp on Matthew 15:4

Verse 4. For God commanded, saying] This is called the first [illegible: 1 word] 6. 2. [non-Latin text not transcribed], [illegible: 2 words] an [illegible: 3 words]. Commandment with promise, viz. the first affirmative Commandment, or the first, in the second Table: or the first of all the tea with promise. For that in the second Commandment is rather a [illegible: 1 word] of Gods justice and mercy, and that to the observers of [illegible: 1 word] D Gouge of [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. the whole Law: but here is a particular promife made to them, that keep this particular commandment. Honour thy father and mother] Among other good offices, nourishGen. 47. 12. and cherish them as Joseph did Jacob and his family, [illegible: 1 word] Ruth 4. 15. [illegible: 2 words] 5. 4. [illegible: 1 word], as a man nourisheth his little-ones, lovingly and tenderly: [illegible: 2 words]. [illegible: 1 word]. c. 23. Be unto them as Obed was to Naomi, A restorer of her [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] b. [illegible: 1 word]. and a nourisher of her old age. This the Apostle commends to us, as [illegible: 1 word] c. 6. a [illegible: 1 word] not only good before men, [illegible: 1 word] acceptable before God. This the Stork and the Mouse teach us, by their singular love to their aged [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] was the staff of his fathers age, and thereby merited the honourable name of Scipio among the Romans. Epaminondas rejoyced in nothing more, then that he had lived to chear up the hearts of his aged parents, by the reports of his [illegible: 1 word]. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Our parents are our houshold gods, said Hierocles. AEneas is sirnamed Pius, for his love to his father, whom he bore upon his [illegible: 1 word] out of the fire of Troy. And Aristotle tels how that when from the hill AEtna, there ran down a [illegible: 1 word] of fire that consumed [non-Latin text not transcribed]. [illegible: 2 words]. [illegible: 2 words]. all the houses thereabouts, in the midst of those fearfull flames Gods speciall care of the godly shined most brightly. For the river of fire parted it self, and made a kinde of lane for those who ventured to rescue their aged parents, and pluck them out of the [illegible: 1 word] of death. He that curseth father or mother] That giveth them an ill [non-Latin text not transcribed]. word, or but an ill look; for, Vultu saepe laeditur pietas. TheProv 30. 17. [illegible: 2 words] veret [illegible: 1 word] gutture corvus. Catul. eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young Eagles shall eat it. Now they are cursed with a witnesse, whom the holy Ghost thus curseth in such emphaticall manner, in such exquisite terms.