John Trapp on Matthew 2:11

Verse 11. And when they were come into the house] Not a [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Palace prepared for the purpose, as the Porphyrogeniti in Constantinople had, [illegible: 1 word] in an Inne was Christ born, as ready to receive all [illegible: 2 words]. contra Tryph. that come unto him, and in a hole of the earth, an under-ground [illegible: 2 words] 51. Euseb. den, as Iustin Martyr, Epiphanius, Eusebius and Origen [illegible: 1 word]. In [illegible: 1 word] terrae foramine (saith St Hierom, ad Marcill. tom. 1.) de [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] conditor natus est, hic involutus pannis, hic visus a pastoribus, Orig. [illegible: 1 word]. 1. hic adoratus a [illegible: 1 word], hic circumcisus, &c. In this cell or [illegible: 1 word] Celsum. hole was the worlds Creatour born, swathed, visited, adored, circumcised. They saw the young childe] For this Ancient of daies, by joyning his Majesty to our vilenes, his power to our [illegible: 1 word], suspended and laid aside his own glory, wherewith he was glorified with the Father before the world began, and voluntarily abased himself to the shape and state of a poor, feeble, helplesse infant, that we might come to the fullnesse of the age in Christ. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. With Mary his Mother] Without any other assistance or attendance. Ioseph haply was at work, or otherwise absent, lest the wise men should mistake him for the true father of the childe. Ana when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts] No great matters to make him rich: for then, what needed the holy Virgin, at her Purification, to have offered two young Pigeons, as a token of her penury, that could not reach to a Lamb? Yet something it was; gold, frankincense and [illegible: 1 word], (sent them in by a speciall providence of God) to helpe to bear their charges into Egypt, whither they were now to flee. Gold, frankincense and myrrhe] The [illegible: 1 word] commodities of their [illegible: 1 word], doubtlesse: thereby (as by a Pepper-corn, in way of homage or chief-rent) they acknowledged Christ to be the true Proprietary and Lord of all. Of the Elephant it is reported, that coming to feed, the first sprig he breaks, he turns it toward Heaven. Of the Stork Pliny tells us, that she offers the first-fruits ofLib. 10 cap. 23. Hinc [illegible: 1 word] cultrix á Latinis [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 2 words] ab [illegible: 1 word]. her young ones to God, by casting one of them out of the nest. God is content we have the benefit of his creatures, so he may have the glory of them: this is all the loan he looketh for: and for this as he indents with us, Psal. 50. 15. so the Saints restipulate, Gen. 28. 22. But he cannot abide that we pay this rent to a wrong Landlord, whether to our selves, as Deut. 8. 17. or to our fellowcreatures, [illegible: 2 words] as they to their sweet hearts, Hos. 2. 5. Gold, frankincense and myrrhe] Aurum, thus, myrrham, regique, hominique, Deoque. A [illegible: 1 word] of each, as Gen. 43. 11. Lycurgus made a law that no man should be over-costly or [illegible: 1 word], [non-Latin text not transcribed]. [illegible: 1 word]. in his offering of sacrifice, [illegible: 1 word] at [illegible: 1 word] he should grow [illegible: 1 word] of the charge, and give God over. Ought we not (saith one) often in soul to goe with the wise men to Bethlehem, being directed by the starre of grace, and there fall down and worship the little King: there offer the gold of charity, the frankincense of [illegible: 1 word], the myrrhe of pae [illegible: 1 word]: and then return, not by cruellSuttons Disce vivere. Herod, or troubled Jerusalem, but another way, a better way, unto our long and happy home?