which they (alled ?>.ci.J-'?re9~~elttv , but whether it were white or no I {hall not contravert: the Original yeelds thus far, tha t it wa~ a br;ght & refplenden_t _garmen~, fuch tl4 cnme newly fr~m the fu lling, many myftenes ( 1f1t be white) a~e"f?und out h~re ; fome fay, this held forth the excellenc~ or d1gmty of Chnft_; white colour is moft agreeable to the l11gheft God, he many t1mes a ppeared is white~ but never in any ~ther <:_ol~ur; and the Saints in heaven are f<ud to be cloathed m long wh1te robes; and Pecres Rev 4.4. Kings, and C efars were nfually cloathed in white, faith Jan~ feniH!: others fay this held .forth t~ innocen~y ofChrifr, ~nd that they were directed herem by diVIne prov1dence, declanng plainly againil: themfelves, that Chriil: fhou!d rather have been abfolved as an innocent, then condemned as a malefad:or.-- but to leave rhefe myfteries, ~he meaning of Herod was not fo much to declare his excellency, or innocency, as his folly, or fimpiicity; certainly he accounted him for no other than a very foole, an ideot, a paffing Gmple man. The Philofophers (fayes TertHlli{m) drew him in. their piD:ures , artyred by Herod, lik_e a foole, with long 11f[rs eares, hu nayles pluckfd off, and a bo~k_ in ha hand-, &c. Oh marvellous madnetfe! o!t the ftrange }lliftakes ofmen! in his life time they account {efu; aglutton, 11 drink_erof M . wine, a CIJmpanion ofJinners : a b!a[phemer, aforcercr, and one that Marktt.r9. c4f GUt devils through JJel<::, ebub Prince of devils: yea, anJ one M:~. /'2 ~4. that himfelfe w.u poj[effed with til devil. And now towards his ] e>h 8.18. death he is bound as a thiefe , he-is !huck in the heufe of C aipht?.o as an arrogant andfaucy fellow, he is accufed before the Sanl:!edrim ofblafphemy; he is brought b~fore P1late as a malefal'l:or, a mover offedition, a feducer, a rebel, and as one that afpired to the KiAgdome; he is tranfmitted unto Herod as a Jugler to fhew tricks; ·and now i-mtha clofe of all he is accounted of Herod _and his men of war a.s a fool-e , an)deoc, a brui~, not having the underftanding of a man . But foft Ho od; is Chrift therefore a foolr,becaufe he isG!ent? and art thou 1vife, IJec;aufc of thy many words, and many quefiions? Solomon a wifer man than Herod, is ofanother minde : in the multitude of words there wanteth vet Prov .ro. r 9; fi~~. but he that refraineth hu lips io wifl. Againe, he tba? hath · ~awl edge fpareth hiJ words, and cHnaf! of,mderftanding u oftt•coole ProV.I__1·:Z.7 ,1B .fPirit; even afoolrwhen he holdeth hu peacs u counted wife: an.4 heth.rt foutteth hu lips u efleemed a man of underftanding: Ah F fff 2 poere
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