Chap.'s: according to St. J o xN. the mercy of the Lord,, we (hall have a joyfull dinner. And fo went they together to the place ofexecution,and took their death hearfully.' Verfe 3. Offf,ikenard, very colly] Herodotus reckons an ala- rtiffisi ¿,e z- batter box ofointment among the precious gifts that Cambyfes c&rJ,s rh:t z fent, for a prefent, to the Kingof Ethiopia. Mary thinks nothing toogood for him, whom herfoul loved. She will honour himwith the beftofher fubftance : the knew there was nothing loft; but though it took from the heap, yet it increafed the heap : as it is Paid oftithes and offerings, Mal.3. This made David fo free and frollick, that he wouldnot ferve God of that 'which colt him no- thing: and that he made fuch plentiful preparation for the Tem- ple, work. It is both love and good husbandry, to make our fer- vice to God coftly : His retributions are bountiful!. This oint- ment in the text was a coftly confection, like that of the Church, Cant. 4.14. Spikenard and Japan , calannu and cynamon, &c. Lib.r.4xtidot. flow ralen writes, that in his time Cynamon was very rare, and hard to be found, except in the ilorehoufes of Princes. And Pliny reports, that a pound ofCynamon was worth a thoufand denarij,, that is i 5o crowns ofour money. Verfe 4. Then /aidone ofhis Difciples] S= lllattheW tels us,that all the Difciples faid thus. ?odds was of fogreat efteem and autho- rity amongft them, that what he did, they are all faid to do. So cunningly he had carried his confpiracie , that they all fiìfpeded themfelves rathèr then fodds; every one faid, Is it I Verfe 5.. Soldfor three hundredpence ] He,the'thief,hadquickly computed and raft it up. Pliny tels us, that a pound ofordinary ointment might be had for ten pence; but the belt was worth three hundred and ten pence. So that radar was much about the good, as they fay: And Mary fpared for no colt ; as neither did cedren.hiß.ad fuflinian in his rich Communion-table, offered up by him in the avuim 37, Tu. TempleofSophia inCorfan inople, that had in it (faith the author) itin' P'317° all the riches of land and fea. ' Verfe6. Hewas a thief] It's the conceit of 7ertullian, that even ruddy carried himfelf honeftly and right, of j;-a 1 loculorum officium, till hebare the bag. When once he came to be matter of themoney, he grew into filch a devilifh humour of covetoufneffe, thatrather thenhe would be out of taking, he would fell his very Saviour: And a fair match he made: For as Aaflin faith, rudas foldhis falvation, and the Pharifees bought their damnation. F 3 And
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