Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Ver. 18. Wherefore comfort, &c.] Scripture comforts come home to the heart, so do not philosophical. Nescio quomodo (saith Cicero of such medicina) morbo est imbecillior. And albeit it is marvellous sweet to meditate (as Mr Knox found it on his deathbed, so that he would have risen and gone into the pulpit to tell others what he had felt in his soul, Melch. Adam. in Vit.), yet there is a special force of strong consolation in Christian communication, which the Lord usually watereth with the dews of divine blessing.