John Trapp on Matthew 4:24

Verse 24. And his fame went thorow all Syria.] Fame followeth [illegible: 1 word] medico [illegible: 2 words] occurrit [illegible: 1 word]. desert, as a sweet sent the rose. This gave occasion to the Poets to feign, That Achilles his tomb was ever garnished with green amaranth. A good name is better then great riches, saithProv. 22. 1. Solomon, And if I can keep my credit I am rich enough, said the [illegible: 1 word] si [illegible: 3 words], [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. Plaut. Heathen. Blessing and good report are exprest by one and the same word in the old Testament, Prov. 27. 21. to shew what a ablessing of God it is. And it could not but be a great comfort to David, that whatsoever he did pleased the people. Cicero saith,2 Sam 3. 36. that perfect glory consisteth in these three things; If the multitude [illegible: 1 word]. 2. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] love a man, if they will trust him, and if they hold him worthy [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] Iesu [illegible: 2 words] & [illegible: 1 word] cap. [illegible: 1 word]. of admiration, praise and honour. Now none of these were wanting to our Saviour, as appeareth in this holy History, and as others have fully set forth. Do worthily in Ephrata, and so be [illegible: 1 word] in Bethlehem, Ruth 4. 11. [non-Latin text not transcribed] And they brought unto him all sick people] All that were in ill case and taking: For, Si vales, benè est, saith one. And, Vita [illegible: 1 word].! [illegible: 1 word]. non est vivere, sed valere, saith another. The Latines call a sick [illegible: 1 word]. man AEger, which some derive of [non-Latin text not transcribed], the voice of complaint and [illegible: 1 word]. And the Stoikes when they affirmed, that to live agreeably to nature, is to live vertuously and valiantly, although the body be never so out of order, they perceived when their own turn came to be sick (saith one) Se magnificentiùs locutos esse [illegible: 1 word]. Wolf. in [illegible: 2 words]. quam veriùs, that they had spoken more trimly then truly. That were taken with divers diseases and torments] That [illegible: 1 word]. were besieged and hemmed in on every side, as by an enemy straitned [non-Latin text not transcribed]. and [illegible: 1 word], so that they knew not whither to look, only their eies were toward Christ. Diseases and torments] As of those that are put upon the [illegible: 1 word]: Pharaoh was so when God extorted from him that confession, I have sinned: which (being gotten off) he soon bit in again. The word here used in the Originall, properly signifieth the [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Test or Touch-stone, where with gold is tried: and, by a borrowed kinde of speech, is applied to all kinde of examination, and (peculiarly) to inquisition by torture, so to any pain or painfull diseases, as of the palsey, lunacy, &c. in this text, and Chap. 8. 6. As also to the torments of hell, Luk. 16. 23. whereof sicknesses are but a beginning, a fore-taste, a very typicall hell to those that have not the fruits of their sicknesse. And this is all the fruits, [illegible: 1 word] Morbos [illegible: 3 words] [illegible: 1 word]. the taking away of their sinne, Isa. 27. I blush not to confesse (saith a great Divine of Scotland) that I have gained more sound knowledge of God and of my self, in this sicknesse, then ever Non [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word], &c. I had before. Happy [illegible: 1 word], that draws the sick matter out of the soul. Physicians hold, that in every two years, there is such [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. store of ill humours and [illegible: 1 word] ingendred in the body, that a vessel of one hundred ounces will scarce contain them. Certain it [illegible: 3 words], p. 23. is, ther's a world of wickednesse and superfluity of naughtinesse (that bed of spirituall diseases) daily gathered and got together in the sinne-sick-soul: which therefore we must labour to purge outDan. 11. 35. & 12. 10. by the practice of mortification; [illegible: 1 word] God purge and whiten us to our sorrow, by some sharp sicknes: as he did Gehezi, whose white fore-head had made him a white soul, his disease cured him, as some are of opinion. Possessed with devils.] Such as whose mindes and senses the devil perverted. Those that were lunatike.] Or such as had the falling-sicknesse, [illegible: 1 word] exerc. as appeareth by those symptomes of this disease, set down Evan [illegible: 1 word] 2 c [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. de orig. ling. [illegible: 1 word]. by [illegible: 1 word] Matthew, Chap. 17. 17. This is otherwise called Morbus sacer. For the Priests of old (that they might thereby enrich themselves) feigned, that the gods tormented men with this, among other sudden and fearfull diseases.