John Trapp on Matthew 8:12

Verse 12. But the children of the kingdom.] Those that had made a covenant with God by sacrifice, Psal. 50. 5. And therefore held their heads on high, as already destinated to the diadem: Loe these, in the height of their hopes and exspectancies, shall be excluded; A foul and fearfull disappointment. Surely the tears of hell cannot sufficiently bewail the losse of heaven. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] Dom. of Valoys, was Son, Brother, Uncle, Father to a King, yet himself1286. never was a King: So here. Into outer darknesse.] Into a darknesse beyond a [illegible: 1 word]: into [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. a [illegible: 2 words] and beneath the prison. In tenebras ex tenebris, [illegible: 2 words], infaeliciùs excludendi, saith Augustin. God shall surely [illegible: 1 word] to these unhappy children of the Kingdom, when he casts them into condemnation, as Aulus Fulvius said to his traiterous sonne, when he slew him with his own hands, Non [illegible: 5 words]. Catilinae te [illegible: 1 word] sed patriae: I called you not but to glory and vertue, neither to glory, but by vertue, 2 Pet. 1. 3. As you liked not the later, so never look for the former. Every man is either a King or a caytiffe: and shall either raign with Christ, or rue it for everAug. with the devil. Aut Casar [illegible: 1 word] nullus, as he said to his Mother: And as those in tho Turks Court, that are born of the blood royall, but come not to the kingdom; They must die either by the sword, or halter: so here.