Foreign the National Basketball Association player, see John Trapp.
Background
His volumes are quoted frequently by other religious writers, including Charles Spurgeon (1834 -1892), Ruth Graham, the daughter of Ruth Bell Graham, said that John Trapp, along with Christian Science Lewis and George MacDonald, was one of her mother"s three favorite sources for quotations.
Education
Trapp studied at the Free School in Worcester and then at Christ Church, Oxford (Bachelor, 1622. Master of Arts, 1624).
Career
John Trapp (5 June 1601, in Croome Doctorate"Abitot – 16 October 1669, in Weston-on-Avon), was an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and is known for its pithy statements and quotable prose. He became usher of the free school of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1622 and its headmaster in 1624, and was made preacher at Luddington, near Stratford, before becoming vicar of Weston-on-Avon in Gloucestershire.
He sided with parliament in the English Civil War and was arrested for a short time.
He served as rector of Welford-on-Avon in Gloucestershire between 1646 and 1660 and again as vicar of Weston from 1660 until his death in 1669. Be careful what books you read, for as water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads.
-- John Trapp
He who rides to be crowned will not mind a rainy day. -- John Trapp.