John Trapp on Matthew 27:6

Verse 6. It is not lawfull, &c.] They would not suffer the price of bloud to lie in a chest; but the bloud it self they could well enough suffer to lie in their consciences. So our modern Pharisees (the Popish Prelates) will not be present when the Martyrs are condemned to death, but have an hypocriticall form of interceding for them to the secular powers, when as they themselves have delivered them up to the Judges to be executed, [illegible: 1 word] suis praejudiciis damnarunt, as one speaketh, having [illegible: 2 words], excommunicated and adjudged them worthy of death.