John Trapp on Matthew 8:30

Verse 30. A herd of many swine [illegible: 1 word] ] Suille pecori anima Epicuri de grege [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. pro sale data, saith Varro. Swinish Epicures also have their soules but for salt to keepe their bodies from putrefying. That was a rotten speech of Epicurus, that life eternall was nothing else but an eternall gourmandizing and swilling and swallowing of Nectar and Ambrosia. The kingdome of God is another manner of thing then meat and drink, Rom. 14. The devil desired to enter into the [illegible: 1 word], because of their [illegible: 1 word]. Eat not greedily, for this is Os porci habere, as that Pope is said to have. Drink not to drunkennesse: for this sin robs a man of himself, and layes a swine in his roome. No creature, besides man, will be drunk, but swine: and not [illegible: 1 word] neither, but as they are conversant about men; for wild swine will not, they say.