Jesus Nazaraeus, sive explicatio loci in sancto D.N. Jesu Christi Evangelio secundum Matthaeum cap. 2. v. 23. Nazaraeus vocabitur

it has been woven by me. Even Christ the Lord himself (I confess), because the condition of his person—that is, the nature of the ministry which he undertook in the days of his flesh—received from the Father, did not wish to be dressed splendidly. Yet he is the one who gives to kings, and noble men, and rulers of peoples, and holy Magistrates not only the ability to be conspicuous in most beautiful clothing and royal ornament, but even more, he himself clothes them with a certain authority and majesty of his own for the common utility of human society, and especially for the preservation of the Church. He is also Jesus Christ (as you yourselves know and acknowledge full well, magnificent Lords), whom the Father crowned with glory and honor, and established over the works of his hands, and subjected all things under his feet. But if anyone should proceed to measure this entire thing by the weakness of my own talent and the lowly and humble speech of one speaking about greater matters, one refuge will always be most safe and holy for me: that the first-fruits were indeed a small thing compared to the rest of the produce: yet that God, to whom...