John Trapp on Matthew 26:63

Verse 63. I adjure thee by the living God] So had the devil done once before, horrendo impudentiae exemplo Mark 3. 7. Sed os Caiaphae & culeus Satanaein [illegible: 1 word] sunt praedicamento. It is nothing with the devil and his, to pollute and dissallow that nomen majestativum, as Tertullian stileth it, that glorius and fearfull name of God, as Moses calleth it: and to call him in, at [illegible: 1 word] Deut [illegible: 2 words] turns, as an author or abettour at least, of their abominable plot and practises. How much better that holy man that said, My heart, head, and tongue, trembleth as oft as I speak of God? Yea [illegible: 1 word], mente, & cogitatione [illegible: 3 words] Deo [illegible: 1 word] habeo. the very Heathen Sages had the same thoughts, that men ought to be better advised, then to tosse Gods reverend name upon their tongues as a tennis-ball, or to wear his image for an ornament, &c. And surely, as St Mark relateth this history, one would [illegible: 1 word]. think Caiaphas a very conscientious person. For he brings him [non-Latin text not transcribed]. in saying to our Saviour, Art thou the son of that Blessed one, Mark 14 61. So he calls God by a periphrasis, as if he were afraid Praecept. Pyth. once to name God: when as yet presently after, he profanely [non-Latin text not transcribed]. adjureth our blessed Saviour by the living God, that thou tell [illegible: 1 word] bu, [illegible: 1 word] ipsum Dei nomen exprimire vereatur. us whether thou be the Christ, &c. And this he doth, not out of any desire to know the truth: but as seeking an occasion, from his bold and free confession of the truth, to put him to death: so going about to entitle God himself to his villanous enterprizes. See here the hatefull nature of damned hypocrisie, and abandon it.