Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
Ver. 22. What I have written, I have written] i.e. I am unchangeably resolved it shall stand. So God saith, I am that I am; that is, I am yesterday, and today, and the same for ever. Learn we may of Pilate to be constant to a good cause. a Marcellus the pope would not change his name, according to the custom, to show his immutability, that he was no changeling.
a Non retractat homo profanus, quod, vere licet, sine mente et consilio de Christo scripsit. Cal.