Making him very glad. — The memory, or rather the thought of that day, the joy of father and another when their child was born (John 16:21) was wanted, as in the irony of destiny, to add the keenest pang to the misery of the present. The “sorrow’s crown of sorrow” was found in remembering happier days. We note the same tenderness turned to bitterness as in Jeremiah 15:10. The day of his birth was to him a day of darkness and not of light.
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Jeremiah 20:15
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.