John Trapp on Nehemiah 6:4

Verſe 4. Yet they ſent unto me four times] As thinking to prevail, by their importunity. This, wicked men have learned of their Maſter Beelzebub, the lord of Flies (as the Name ſignifieth) or Maſter-flie that will not off the bait till beaten, and hardly then.A [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Sin hath oaded an impudency in ſome mens faces: and it appears they are paſt all grace, becauſe ſhameleſſe; Et pudet non eſſe impudentes, ſaith Auſtin.

And I anſwered them after the ſame manner] Nehemiah ſtood immoveable as a rock: He was homo quadratus, not to be altered, but firm to his principles, reſolute in his holy purpoſes. We may ſtile him (as Theodoret doth Athanaſius) the Bulwark of Truth, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. the Churches-champion. Nec temerè, nec timidè may ſeem to have been his motto, neither temerarious, nor timorous.