John Trapp on Matthew 9:11

Verse 11. And when the Pharisees saw it.] As envy is quicksighted. See Ovids description of it, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. The wicked look round about the Saints, seeking to pick a hole in their coats; they pore and pry more narrowly then Laban did into Jacobs stuff. Walk circumspectly.Ephes. 5. 15. They said unto his Disciples.] 1. Not to him: where the hedge is lowest, there the devil leaps over soonest: as he began his temptation with Eve, apart from her husband, Calumniare [illegible: 1 word], aliquid saltem adhaerebit, is a maxime in Machiavel. It is the property of defamations, to leave a kinde of lower estimation many times, where they are not believed. 2. These hypocrites would seem to say this in pure pity to the seduced Disciples, whom they saw to do the same with their Master. An ordinary trick among make-bates. S. Austin had these two verses written on his Table, Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere famam, [illegible: 1 word]. in [illegible: 1 word]. Hanc mensam indictam [illegible: 3 words]. Here's no room for railers.