A Short Treatise on the Love of God

Chapter 1hidden from the learned; and had revealed the same to the Children: and when Jesus had said / that it thus pleased his Father.

22.17. Afterward, it was when Jesus had further taught / that all things were delivered to him by his Father; and that no one knew / who the Son was / but the Father; and who the Father was / but the Son; and that it was also known only to those to whom the Son revealed it: And he had further taught / that those eyes were blessed / which saw the things / just as his Disciples saw them; they saw / that in the name of Jesus was all power: which many Kings and Prophets had also wanted to see, and have not seen it: and to hear those things, which you my Disciples hear, and have not heard them. This passage paraphrases Luke 10:21–24, emphasizing that spiritual sight is a gift rather than an intellectual achievement.

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18. Surely now it was high time / that the tempting Lawyer Wetgeleerde: literally a 'law-learned' man; a scribe or expert in the Mosaic Law stood up / and stepped forward / to question Jesus; indeed this Lawyer first thought within himself / how does this paltry poor Man make himself so great before all these people: but you shall soon perceive / what he is; I know for certain he will not know the First and Greatest Commandment of the Law / how then could he have done it?

Mark 12: 28. Luke 10: 25.Now this Lawyer stood up, and approached Jesus, to tempt him; he wanted then to tempt Jesus with his own words / which he had spoken in former times through his Servant Moses, he did not know that very one / from whom every Word and Commandment came; he considers him only as Jesus's spoken— The author suggests an irony here: the Lawyer is trying to use the Law of Moses to trip up Jesus, without realizing that Jesus is the very source of that Law.