John Trapp on Matthew 24:4

Verse 4. Take heed that no man deceive you] Try the spirits, and turn from false doctrines, as you would do from a serpent in your way, or from [illegible: 1 word] in your meats. Deceivers are fly and subtile, and that old serpent, more subtile then them all, catcheth the deceived by the deceiver, as the fisher doth one fish by another, that he may make a prey of them both. These, as Harpies, have virgins faces, vultures tallons: they are ravening wolves in sheeps-clothing, &c. Shun them therefore, for they will increase to more ungodlinesse, and their word will eat as doth a gangrene, 2 Tim. 2. 16, 17. Theodosius tore the writings of the Theod. Imp [illegible: 1 word] scripta [illegible: 1 word] pugnantia cum testimonijs [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. Sozom l. 7. c. 7. Arrians that were presented to him. And when he desired to conferre with Eunomius, his Empresse Placilla disswaded him, very earnestly; lest being perverted by his speeches he might fall into heresie