John Trapp on Matthew 25:35

Verse 35. For I was an hungred] For in this place, denoteth not the cause, but the evidence. It is all one as if I should say, This man liveth, for behold he moveth. Where it will easily be yeelded, That motion is not the cause of life, but the evidence and effect of it. So here. Merit is a meer fiction, sith [illegible: 1 word] can be no proportion betwixt the worke and the [illegible: 1 word].