610 (..4 Commentary 'upon the Go Chap.27 Verle 34 They gave him vineger, &c. ] Cold coin,fort to a dying man; Lut they did it in dertfio;y, q..d. Than art a King , and mutt have generous wines. Here's for See the Note on, ?ohn i9. 29. It were happy &this ineger given our Saviour, might mele our adamantine hearts in- to forrew. Vetfe35. ?artedhisgarments] Let us likewife fuffr with j-y the (polling of our goods, d-c. Heb. to. 3.1. yea, the fpoil- ing of our perfons, tohavé our clothes alto taken and torn off our backs : Chritt will fay, Bringforth the belt robe, ring, &c. If a Heathen could fay, whenhe law a fuddain (hipwrack of all his wealth, Well fortune, I fee thy intent, thou wouldit have me be a Philofopher : Should not a Chriflianconclude, Surely Chrift would have me look after heavcnly,that thus (trips me ofall earth- ly comforts ? Verfe 36. They Watched bias there] Left haply he (hould get gat away thenceby a miracle. But his time ofgetting out of their hands was not yet corne. Here hung fora while that golden cenfer Chrifts body ; which through the holes that were made in it, as thorowchinks or holes, fumed forth afwect favour in the nolltilsofhis heavenly rather, Eph.S. a. fuchas draweth all men tohim, that have theirfenfesexercifed todifcerngoodandevil,Joh. 12.32, Heb.5.14. 'Yede 37. Thii 7efui, the King of the. yews] Pilate (by a fpeciall providence of God ) intending nothing kté, gives Chritt a teiaimoniall, and wouldnot alter it, though follicjted thereto. He did it tobe revenged on the Jews for their fenfleffe importunity to havehim condemnan innocent, and withal!, to Avtio4or°7`o74° ut Chrift to an oven fhame, as a crucified King. Like as that POP O 1ç1rv Ire p p p ' virperegrini, Atheift Lucian, blaf hetnoufl y cals our Saviour The crucified 1udei perpetua coufener, the modern Jews contemptuoutly call him (in re- obgarniunr ni- ference to his erode) The Woofe and the Warp. And, at the hit eJfe f otidi fack of Conitantinople, the Image cf the Crucifix was fet up quad'usChrifliani:, b the. infolent 7ssrks, and {hat at with their arrows : and m ex bominecm. afterwards ingreat &dam carried about the Camp, as it had cifixo ibi polli- been in proceflìon, thofe deaddogs railingand (pittingat it, ani ceantur, c. calling it, The godofthe Chriffians, Ten thoufand Martyrs were Bucholc. crucified in the Mount ofArarath under Adrian the Emperour, Mr` hift. fot, crowned with thorns, andthrnft into thetides.with (harpdarts, 347. Ad. and atop. incontempt ofChrift. V.,erfe
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