John Trapp on Revelation 10:9

Verſe 9. Give me the little book] Let Preachers ply the throne of grace, if ever they will preach to purpoſe. Bene oraſſe, est bent ſtuduiſſe, ſaid Luther. Three things make a Preacher, Reading, Praier and Temptation. He that will underſtand Gods riddles muſt plough with his heifer the Spirit, which is not given, but to them that ask it. Alſted. Ch[illegible: 1 letter]on. 450 Ibid 267. Vide parcum in Gen. pro[illegible: 2 letters]g.

And eat it up] By reading and meditation: Miniſters muſt ſo devour and digeſt the holy Scriptures, that as good Scribes they may draw out new and old for the uſe of the Church upon all occaſions. Jacobus de Voragin[illegible: 1 letter] was ſo called, Quod eſſet veluti vorago bibliorum, becauſe he had as it were devoured the Bible. So Petrus Comeſtor for the ſame reaſon. Joannes Gati[illegible: 1 letter]s a Sicilian, was ſo well verſed in the Scriptures, and ſo great a Divine, that he once ſaid, Si libri ſacri perirent, ſe per Dei gratiam restititurum, That if the Bible were loſt out of the world, he could reſtore it. Some thinke that Ezra did ſo after the Babyloniſh captivity: but I cannot think ſo.