John Trapp on Matthew 2:5

Verse 5. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem] Lo, how readily and roundly, out of the Scriptures, they could answer to this capitall question; giving such signes of the Messias, as did evidently agree to Jesus Christ. Yet were they for their obstinacy so infatuated, that when God shewed them the man to whom their own signes agree, they cannot allow of him. Unlesse the Lord give a minde as well as means; sight, as well as light, and irradiate the organ as well as the object, we grope, as blinde men in the darke; weIsa. [illegible: 1 word]. 10. erre in heart, as not knowing Gods waies: yet cannot wander so [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. wide, as to misse of hell; to originall blindenesse, we adde actuall stubbornnesse, the devil holding his black hand (as it were) afore our eyes, that we may not see and be saved, Acts 26. 19.