John Trapp on Matthew 27:45

Verse 45. Darknesse over all the land] The Sun hid his headSol non sert aspectun illum uni [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] fine [illegible: 1 word] & [illegible: 4 words]. in a mantle of black, as ashamed to behold those base indignities done to the Sonne of righteousnesse, by the sons of men. This darknesse some think was universall: not only over all the land of Jury, but over the whole earth (and so the text may be rendered.) Tiberius, say they, was sensible of it at Rome: Dionysius A [illegible: 1 word]. writes to Polycarpus, that they had it in Egypt. And another [non-Latin text not transcribed]. great Astronomer Ptolomy (if I mistake not) was so amazed at it, that he pronounced, either nature now determineth, or the God of nature suffereth. Unto the ninth hour] In this three-houres darknesse he was set upon by all the powers of darknesse, with utmost might and malice. But he foyled and spoiled them all, and made an open shew of them (as the Romane Conquerours used to do) triumphing over them on his crosse, as on his chariot of state, Colos. 2. 15 attended by his vanquished enemies, with their hands bound behinde them, Eph. 48.