Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
Ver. 36. And why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?] The saints in heaven say so doubtless; being wholly swallowed up with admiration at that "excessive and eternal weight of glory," so freely conferred upon them. For coals we shall have pearls, said that martyr to his fellows; joys without measure or mixture; desiderio generante satistatem, et satistate desiderium parante, as Bernard a hath it; desire begetting satiety, and satiety bringing forth desire.
a De Pass. Dom.