John Trapp on Matthew 18:2

Verse 2. And Jesus called a little childe] Nicephorus saith this was Ignatius, who was afterwards Bishop of Antioch; but I am not bound to [illegible: 1 word] him. It is well known that he is full of fictions. Christ calling for a little childe, who neither [illegible: 1 word] great things of himself, nor [illegible: 1 word] great things for himself, rightly and really confutes their [illegible: 1 word] ambition and [illegible: 1 word] of [illegible: 1 word]. primacy, and gives [illegible: 1 word] such a [illegible: 2 words] as Tarquin did [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. son, when, walking in the garden he struck off the heads of the [illegible: 1 word] 3. 6. 9. Poppies in the sight of the messenger: and as Periander the [illegible: 1 word] did Thrasybulus the [illegible: 1 word] of Athens, when pulling of the upper ears, he made all the standing corn equall, intimating thereby what a tyrant must doe, that would live [illegible: 1 word] and quiet.