John Trapp on Matthew 26:4

Verse 4. Take Iesus by [illegible: 1 word], and kill him] Craft and cruelty go commonly coupled in the Churches [illegible: 1 word]. Neither of them wants their mate, as the Scripture speaks of those birds of prey and desolation, Isa. 34. 16. These [illegible: 1 word] and Elders were so bitterly bent against Christ, [illegible: 1 word] nothing would satisfie them but his bloud. All plants and other [illegible: 1 word] have their growth and encrease to a period, and [illegible: 1 word], their declination and decay, [illegible: 1 word] only the [illegible: 1 word], who grows bigger and bigger, even till death. So [illegible: 1 word] all passions and perturbations in mans minde their intentions and remissions, except only malicious revenge. This dies not, many times, but with the man (if that) as nothing [illegible: 1 word] quench the combustible slime in Samosaris, nor the [illegible: 1 word] Plin. l. 2. 6. 104. & 105. flame of the [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word], but only earth. Saint [illegible: 1 word] tells us, That our Saviour being reviled, did not only commit1 Pet. 2. 23. his cause to God, but Himselfe to God: as expecting the encrease of his enemies opposition, till they had put him to death.