John Trapp on Matthew 27:12

Verse 12. He answered nothing] Here the nimble Lawyer would have presently argued, as the Popes Legat did at the meeting of the Princes at Smalcaldia in Germany. He brought Letters from the Pope to the Electour of Saxony: and because the Electour gave [illegible: 1 word] Manl loc. com. p 406. him not a present answer, he inferred, Qui tacet consentire videtur. Melancthon, being by, made answer, Hoc est sophisticum, est regula juris, [illegible: 1 word] non valet inconjecturalibus. Nam dicit, videtur, & argumentum videtur, solvitur per non videtur. Christ therefore answered nothing, because they alledged nothing but notorious lies, and such as he saw well the Governour himselfe saw thorow, and therefore tried so many policies to set him free.