21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.



Ver. 21. Finding nothing how] With what face they could do anything against them, though their fingers even itched to be doing something. Bucer so carried himself here in England, that neither his friends could sufficiently praise, nor his foes find any fault with him. And for Luther, Non leve praeiudicium est, said Erasmus, tantam esse morum integritatem, ut nec hostes reperiant quod calumnientur. His life is so unblamable that his greatest enemies cannot blemish him.



Because of the people] Those that are most terrible to others are not without their terrors. Dionysius the tyrant dared not be barbed but by his own daughters. Masinissa, king of Numidia, committed the guard of his body to dogs; which he could sooner trust than men, whom he had by his cruelty displeased and provoked.