John Trapp on Proverbs 9:8

Verſ. 8. Reprove not a ſcorner] See my Common-place of Admonition. Look how Dogs prefer loathſome carrion before the ſweeteſt odours, and would fl[illegible: 1 letter]e in the faces of ſuch as would drive them from it: So is it here.

And hee will love thee] When hee hath well conſidered he will; though for preſent he may ſeem to do otherwiſe▪ As Aſa ſwaggered with the Prophet, and put him in priſon. We read in the Eccleſiaſtical Hiſtory, that Agapetus Biſhop of Rome, being ſent by Theodatus King of Goths to Conſtantinople on an Ambaſſage to Justinian, and having obtained a peace, hee was earneſtly intreated by the Emperour to ſubſcribe and confirm the Hereſie of Eutyches. This when hee utterly refuſed to do, the Emperour threatned him in caſe hee did not. Agapetus thereto boldly replied, I had a deſire to wait upon Juſtinian, whom I took to be a moſt pious Prince, but now I perceive him to bee a moſt violent perſecutor, a ſecond Diocleſian. With this free reproof, and Gods bleſſing withall, Juſtinian was ſo wrought upon, that hee preſently embraced the true Faith; and baniſhing Biſhop Anthemius, a great propagator of the Eutychian Hereſie,Funcius. hee ſet up Menna an Orthodox Divine in his room, whom Agapetus conſecrated, if Platina may bee beleeved. David loved Nathan the better while hee lived, for dealing ſo plainly with him: Aug. Comp. And named him a Commiſſioner for the declaring of his Succeſſor, 1 King. 1. So Alipius loved Auſtin for reproving him.