John Trapp on Matthew 23:8

Verse 8. Be not ye called Rabbi] Do not ambitiously affect such a title, as if you were the only ones, and others not worthy to be named in the same day with you. Swelling in the body is an ill symptom, but worse in the soul. For one is your master] Your guide to godlinesse, and happinesse, [non-Latin text not transcribed] your Doctour and dictatour, your Oracle, your Ipse dixit, whose bare word you are to take, without further proof or pawn. And all [illegible: 1 word] are brethren] Not as the Pope calls his Cardinalls brethren, when in creating them, he useth this form, [illegible: 1 word] fratres nostri, & Principes [illegible: 1 word]. Odi fastum illius Ecclesiae, saith Basil, which caused the lamentable seperation of the Eastern or Greek Church, from communion with the Latine, the other four Patriachs dividing themselves from the Bishop of Rome, for his encroaching upon them.