John Trapp on Matthew 27:47

Verse 47. This man calleth for Elias] A malicious mistake, a devilish sarcasme. Whiles darknesse was upon them, they werePsal. 32. 9. over-awed and husht; their mouths were haltered (as horsesMark 4 [illegible: 1 letter]9. must be, saith the Psalmist, as the sea was by our Saviour,) and [non-Latin text not transcribed]. held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. But no sooner was it light again, but they are at their old trade again; deriding our Saviour and depraving his words, as if forsaken of his hope in God, he had fled to Elias for help: So when M[illegible: 2 letters]ch. Adam in vita Cranm. Cranmer, standing at the stake, cryed out often, Lord Jesu receive my spirit, a Spanish Monk that heard him, ran to a Noble-man there present and tells him, that those were the words of one that dyed in great despair.