John Trapp on Matthew 27:37

Verse 37. This is Jesus, the King of the Jews] Pilate (by a speciall providence of God) intending nothing [illegible: 1 word], gives Christ a testimoniall, and would not alter it, though sollicited thereto. He did it to be revenged on the Jews for their senslesse importunity to have him condemn an innocent, and withall, to [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 5 words]. put Christ to an open shame, as a crucified King. Like as that A theist Lucian, blasphemously cals our Saviour, The crucified cousener, the modern Jews contemptuously call him (in reference to his crosse) The Woofe and the Warp. And, at the sack of Constantinople, the Image of the Crucifix was set up by the insolent Turks, and shot at with their arrows: and afterwards in great [illegible: 1 word] carried about the Camp, as it had been in procession, those dead dogs railing and spitting at it, and calling it, The God of the Christians. Ten thousand Martyrs were crucified in the Mount of Ararath under Adrian the [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] hist. fel. [illegible: 1 word]. crowned with thorns, and thrust into the sides with sharp darts, in contempt of Christ. [illegible: 1 word]. and Mon.