John Trapp on Matthew 21:16

Verse 16. Thou hast perfected praise] [non-Latin text not transcribed], thou hast given [illegible: 1 line]. it all its parts, and proportions; thou hast compleated and accomplished it. The Hebrew saith, Fundasti, thou hast founded praise, and well bottomed it. Quae enim perfecta, sunt firmissima. Now there is no mouth so weak, into which God cannot put words of praise. And how oft doth he chuse the sillysimples of the world, to confound the wise and learned? See my notes on Psal. 8. 2. And here it is observable that our Saviour answers warily to the captious question; so as he may neither offend [illegible: 1 word], by taking upon him to be a King, nor stumble the people, who took him for no lesse, and he was well pleased there with. Let our columbine simplicity be mixed with serpentine subtilty, that we run not our selves heedlesly into unnecessary dangers.