Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Ver. 52. Put up again thy sword] See Trapp on " Joh 18:11 "
For all they that take the sword] Without a just calling, as those sworn swordsmen of the devil, the Jesuits, whose faction (as one saith of them) is a most agile sharp sword; the blade whereof is sheathed at pleasure, in the bowels of every commonwealth, but the handle reacheth to Rome and Spain. Their design is to subdue all to the pope, and the pope to themselves.