John Trapp on Matthew 27:13

Verse 13. Hearest thou not? &c.] Yes, well enough: but there is a time, when a man should be as a deaf man that heareth not, and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Ego [illegible: 1 word] Psal. 38. 13. Dominus, ut tu linguae, said he in Tacitus to his obstreperous adversary. If I cannot command thy tongue, yet I can command mine own ears. And the prudent will keep silence in an evil time, saith Amos. See the Note above, on Chap. 26. 62. Patience andAmos 5, 13. silence were Isaac's apology to Ishmael. Sile, & funestam dedisti [illegible: 1 word], saith Chrysostom.