John Trapp on Matthew 8:5

Verse 5. There came unto him a Centurion.] Rarior est virtus veniens, e corpore raro. Souldiers are commonly fierce and godlesse creatures. But this noble Centurion might well have made a Commander in that Thundering Legion, and might well have [non-Latin text not transcribed]. had his hand in that Victoria Haleluiatica (as it was called) obtained by the Orthodox Brittans, against the Pelagian Picts and D [illegible: 1 word] de [illegible: 1 word] Britan. Eccles. primord p. 332. Saxons here, Victoriâ fide obtentâ non viribus, as the story tells us; a victory got by faith, and not by force.