The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Surely Christ is the hope of Israel, and if he who is the hope of Israel deferreth his visits to a sin-sick soul, that soul will languish? He is also the desire of all nations, and must be the desire of every truly, awakened heart, and when he cometh, he is indeed the tree of life in the paradise of God. Oh! what a verse of Christ and his fulness, suitableness, and blessedness is here? Jeremiah 14:8; Haggai 2:7; Revelation 22:2.