John Trapp on Matthew 21:12

Verse 12. And [illegible: 1 word] out all them that sold] The zeal of Gods house did ever eat him up. And (as revenge [illegible: 1 word] zeal 2 Cor. [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 1 word]. 7. 11.) he marrs their markets, and drives them [illegible: 1 word] of the [illegible: 1 word] with Procul ò procul este [illegible: 1 word]. And this deed of our Saviours was altogether divine; whiles, as another Sampson, he [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] upon heaps (yet without bloodshed) with the [illegible: 1 word] of an [illegible: 1 word]. St Hierom extolleth this [illegible: 1 word] above the raising of Lizarus, restoring the blind to their sight, the lame to their limmes, &c. and adds this mysticall sense of [illegible: 1 word] text. [illegible: 2 words] ingreditur Templum Patris, & ejicit [illegible: 1 word] tam Episcopos & Presbyteros, quam [illegible: 1 word] & [illegible: 1 word] turbam de Ecclesia sua, & [illegible: 1 word] criminis habet, vendentes paritèr & [illegible: 1 word]. Christ is every day casting out of his Church all these mony-marchants, [illegible: 3 words], both ministers and others, that make [illegible: 1 word]. sale of holy things, which the very Heathens abhorred, and others long since complained, that benefices were bestowed non ubi optimè, sed ubi [illegible: 1 word], as if a man should bestow so much bread on his [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] he is to ride on him. The tables of the mony-changers] This he did also at his first [illegible: 1 word] into the ministry, Ioh. 2. 14. 15. See my notes on that [illegible: 1 word]. The [illegible: 1 word] of Religion was Christs chief care, and so it should be ours: And although little was done by his first attempt Ioh. 2. yet he tries again; [illegible: 1 word] should we; contributing what we [illegible: 1 word] to the work continually, by our prayers and utmost indeavours: [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. wishing at least, as Ferus did, that we had some Moses [illegible: 2 words] away the evils in Church and state. Non [illegible: 2 words] t [illegible: 1 word], sed multos habemus, [illegible: 1 word] he; for we abound with [illegible: 1 word], and [illegible: 1 word].