Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Ver. 6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice] Gr. αγαλλιασθε, ye dance for joy, ye dance a galliard, or as children do about a bonfire; ye cannot but express your inward joy in your countenance, voice, and gesture.
If need be, ye are in heaviness] When our hearts grow a grain too light, God seeth it but needful to make us heavy through manifold temptations. When our water (as it were) looks but a little too high, our heavenly Father, a physician no less cunning than loving (saith Bayn), doth discern it, and quickly fits us, whom he most tendereth, with that which will reduce all to the healthful temper of a broken spirit.