John Trapp on Matthew 23:33

Verse 33 Ye Serpents] Serpentum tot sunt venena, quot genera, Lib. 12. cap. [illegible: 1 word]. saith Isidore, tot pernicies, quot species, tot [illegible: 1 word], qnot colores. See how our Saviour sharps up these [illegible: 1 word], that, if possible, they might be made sound in the [illegible: 1 word]. So deals Peter by Simon Magus, Paul by Elymas, many of our Champions by their Popish Antagonists. Before God you are deceivers of the people (said M. Philpot Martyr, to his persecutours) afore God there is no truth in you. And to mocking Morgan, he said, I must tell Act. and Mon. fol. 1653. thee, thou painted wall and [illegible: 1 word], in the name of the living Lord, that God shall [illegible: 1 word] fire and brimstone upon [illegible: 2 words] of his word, and [illegible: 1 word] of his people, as thou art. And afterward, Thou art but an Asse in the things of God, in that thou kickest against the truth, and art void of all godly understanding. Thou hast seduced others (said Bonner to Philpot) and madest them rejayce and sing with thee. Yea, my Lord, quoth he, we shall sing when you shall cry, Woe, woe, except ye repent. What an arrogant fool is this (said the Bishop) I will handle Ibid. 1654. thee like an heretike, and that shortly. I fear nothing, I thank God (said the other) that you can do unto me. But God shall destroy such as thou art, and that shortly, as I trust. Likewise Ibid 1567. to the Bishop of Chichester he spake thus. I perceive you are [illegible: 1 word] certè [illegible: 4 words] quàm diabolus, quia Arrianus. blinde guides and leaders of the blinde, and therefore, as I am bound to tell you, very hypocrites tvrannously persecuting the truth, which you are not able to disprove. Thus Hilary called Constantius Antichrist, and [illegible: 1 word] devil, because they were Arrians. Ye generation of vipers] Quarum morsus insanabilis. Sic [illegible: 1 word] Plin. l. 11. c. 37. sycophantarum morsum non est remedium. See my Notes on Mat. 3. 7. Vipers teeth are buried in their gums, that one would think they could not bite: so hypocrites.