John Trapp on Matthew 17:24

Verse [illegible: 1 word]. They that received tribute money] This [illegible: 1 word] or half-shekel, was formerly paid by the Israelites every year, afterGodvv [illegible: 1 word]. Heb. ex [illegible: 1 word]. de bel. l. 7. c. 27. they were twenty year old, toward the Temple, Exod. 30. 13. Caesar, by taking it from the Temple, and turning it to a [illegible: 1 word], did indeed take away from God that which was Gods. This very tribute was paid afterwards by the Jews toward the Roman Capitoll, by vertue of a [illegible: 1 word] made by [illegible: 1 word]. How just is it in God, that the spoiler should be spoiled, Isa. 30. 1. that the Roman Emperours, that so robbed and wronged God, should be robbed of their rights, as they are by the Popes usurpations? [illegible: 1 word] not your Master pay tribute?] Is he either born or bought free? See Act. 22. 28. But if neither, they might (had they had any [illegible: 1 word] in them) have spared him, so publike, so profitable a person, that had so well deserved of the whole Nation, so well merited an immunity, an indemnity. But all is lost that is laid out upon ungratefull persons, or people. Covetousnesse hath no respect to any thing, but to its own profit, and knows no otherHorat. language then the horse-leeches, Give, Give, Rem, rem, [illegible: 1 word] modo rem, without any respect of persons, how well [illegible: 2 words].