John Trapp on Matthew 17:23

Verse 23. And they were exceeding sorry] Out of love to their Lord, saith Hierom, out of ignorance and stupidity, saith Saint [illegible: 1 word] 9. 32. Mark and S. Luke: so they grieve where no cause was, as weLuk. 9. 45. do oft upon like grounds and causes. How well might our Saviour have said to them, as afterwards he did to the women, Grieve not for me, but grieve for your selves. [illegible: 1 word] knew well that if Christ [illegible: 1 word], they should not scape scot free, Hinc [illegible: 2 words]. We shrink in the shoulder when called to [illegible: 1 word] the [illegible: 1 word], and pretend this and that for excuse, as Moses did the conscience of his own insufficiency, Exod. 4. 10. when the very truth was, he feared Pharaoh, lest he would have revenged the AEgyptians quarrell against him, whom he had slain, and hid in the sand: And as [illegible: 1 word] pretended his dear love to his Master, Matth 16. 22. when it appears, ver. 26. he aimed indeed at the safegard of his own [illegible: 1 word], more then [illegible: 1 word] Masters [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] care be taken, that (what ever we make believe) we be not self-[illegible: 1 word] (which begins that black-bedroll, 2 Timothy 3. 2.) and lovers of pleasures, profits, preferments, more then lovers of God (which ends it.)