John Trapp on Matthew 23:18

Verse 18. But whosoever sweareth by the gift, &c.] Vbi utilitas, [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 2 words], saith Epictetus, where there is gain, there is godlinesse. And, Deos quis que sibi utiles [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] another. All the worldlings plowing, sailing, building, buying, buts upon commodity, [illegible: 1 word] knows no other deity. These Pharisees strove to reduce all [illegible: 1 word] to their own purses and paunches, though they rendred men thereby not only irreligious, but unnaturall, Mat. 15. 5, 6. See the Notes there.