John Trapp on Matthew 25:34

Verse 34. Come ye blessed of my Father,] Pateruè alloquitur. As who should say, Where have ye been, my darlings, all this while of my long absence? Come, Come now into my bosom, which is now wide open to receive you, as the welcomest guesse that ever accoasted me, &c. And surely, if Jacobs and Josephs meeting were so unspeakably comfortable: If Mary and Elizabeth did so greet and congratulate, O what shall be the joy of that [illegible: 1 word] day! Inherit the Kingdom prepared] Here (as in the Turks Court) every man is aut Caesar aut nullus, as he said, either a King or aTurk hist. [illegible: 1 word]; as the Sultans children, if they raign not, they die without mercy, either by the sword or halter. From the foundation of the world] Their heads were destinated long since to the diadem, as Tertullian hath it. K. James was crowned in his cradle. Sapores King of Persia, before he was born (for his father dying, the Nobles set the crown on his mothers belly) but the Saints were crowned, in Gods eternall counsell, before the world was founded.