John Trapp on Matthew 24:39

Verse 39. And knew not] i.e. They took no kuowledge ofQuod vel inviti norant, non agnoverant. [illegible: 1 word] predictions, or their own peril. Their wits they had buried in their guts, their brains in their bellies (As of the Assefish it is said, that contrary to all other living creatures he hathArist de [illegible: 1 word]. his heart in his belly) whoredom, wine, and new wine take away the heart, Hos. 4, 11. Carnall sins disable nature, and so set men in a greater distance from grace, which is seated in the powers of nature. I read of some desperate wretches, that drinking together, In quodam episcopatu potaverunt aliqui, &c. Joh. [illegible: 1 word]. loc. com. p 244. when one of them had drunk himself stark dead, the other no whit warned by that fearfull example of Gods wrath, powred his part of drink into the dead mans belly. And took them [illegible: 1 word] away] Men are never lesse [illegible: 1 word], then when they are most secure. Babylon bore it self bold upon the twenty years provision laid up aforehand, to stand out a siege. When it Herodot. lib. 1. was neverthelesse taken by Cyrus, some part of the city wouldArist, Polit. [illegible: 1 word]. 3. not know or beleeve of three daies after, that there was any such matter.