John Trapp on Matthew 17:14

Verse 14. And when they were come to the [illegible: 1 word] ] That was, the next day after the transfiguration, Luk 9. and in that nick of time, when the [illegible: 1 word] could neither cure the lunatick, nor answer their adversaries, who had now sport enough to see them brought into the briers, and therefore jeered them before the people [illegible: 1 word]. 9. 15. to some purpose. Most opportunely therefore if ever, comes Christ to their succour, as it were out of an engine, and both cures the childe and confounds the Pharisees. His late honour hindred him not from doing his office: his incomparable felicity made him not forget poor Josephs misery. He knew he was much [illegible: 1 word] and waited for, and therefore makes haste from the mount to the multitude. Kneeling down to him] Some understand the word of such an humble gesture of catching the party petitioned by the knees or feet, as the Shunammite used to the Prophet, the Shulamite to [non-Latin text not transcribed]: [illegible: 1 word]. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. her spouse, and Thetis to Iupiter, when she sued to him in her sons behalf.