494 4 Commentaryupon theGo, el Chap. ao.. and that though he be brought to the dult ofdeath, hewill rife a- gain glorioufly, to their great comfort. Verfe 18. Beholdwe goe up to 7eruClem.] Behold, as it re. Luk i8 34' quires attention (and this was no more then need, for Luke tells us that tkey understood none of thefe things, &c.) fo it lets forth our Saviours forwardneffe, to goe this dangerous voyage. Verfe 19. To.mock, and to[courge, and to crucifie him.] What are all our tufferings tohis ? and yet we think our felves undone, ifbut toucht: and in letting forthour calamities, we adde, we mul- .rQì srxAE tiply, we rife in our difcourfe, like him in the Poet. I am thrice u vKáa 7STev miferable, nay ten, twenty, an hundred, a thoufand times unhap- xs, ,e6 Ev.7u. pie. And yet all our fufferings are but as the (liversand chips of h4A- that crofle, uponwhich Chrift, nay many Chriftians have fufter- ::1,us,ad4Lvet ed. In the time of Adrian the Emperour, ten thoufand Martyrs s Arittoth, are laid to have been crucified in the mount ofArarath, crowned with thorns, and thruft into the fides with (harp darts, after the and Mend example ofthe Lords paffion. The chiefofwhomwere Achaictu, Heliades, Theodorus, Carceriur, &c. Verfe 20. Then came to him, &c.] Then, molt unfeafonably when Chrift had by the parable been teaching them humility, and now was difcourfing of his death and paffion, then came thefe formesofZebedee tobeg a principality in ChriRs imaginary earth- ly Monarchy. And this is not the firft time of their fo foul mi- ftake, founfeafonablea fuit to him, or ftrife among themfelves. Theleprofy was curedat once in Naaman : fo is not corruption in theSaints, but by degrees, and at times. Themother ofZebedeeschildren.] Set on by her twò fonnes, who were afhamed to make themotion themfelves, (but as good they might, for Chrift knew all, and therefore directs his ant wer to them, Mark, o.35.) and the alf'owas not well alluredof the fitneffe ofher rcqueft, and therefore came curtefying and craving a certain thing : not tellinghim what at firft, as going fcn,ewhat. againft her confcience. And Purely her requeft had been impu- dent, but that the prefùmed upon her neer alliance to Chrift: For the is thought-to have been- lifter to Iofepb, who was Pater Chrifli poliricus : and thence her boldneffe, by reafonofher right of kindred by the Fathers fide. And this isTome kinde of carnali excufe; Yet not for her andher Eons folly and vanity, in dream- itrg of an earthly, kingdom, and therein a diftribution, of ho- n9urs
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