But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
Ver. 6. Sorrow hath filled your hearts] So that you are, for the time, not more uncomfortable than uncounsellable. Thus also it fared with those Israelites in Egypt; their ears were so full of gall, that meek Moses even lost his sweet words upon them, Exodus 6:9. Passions are headstrong, and can hear no counsel:
" Fertur equis auriga, nec audit currus habenas. "