John Trapp on Matthew 22:26

Verse 26. And third unto the seventh] Happy it was, if seeing their brethren [illegible: 1 word] so fast, themselves were warned to number their own daies, and provide for deaths coming. But this is not easily done; for we naturally dream of an immortality, Psal. 49. 11. and it is death to us to think of death, though we see so many daily die before us. It fareth with us for the most part, as with fatting Cattle. The Butcher comes to day, and fetcheth away one, to morrow and fetcheth away another, &c. The rest that are left behinde do neither mifse their fellows, nor dread their own destiny. So here, this is brutish stupidity, shake it off.