A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
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Gill's Exposition
In that day ye shall ask me nothing,.... Meaning, not the whole Gospel dispensation, so often called, in prophetic language, "that day"; and is, in the New Testament, opposed to the night of Jewish…
Adam Clarke
For joy that a man is born - Ανθρωπος is put here for a human creature, whether male or female; as homo among the Romans denoted either man or woman.
Our Lord Jesus, for the comfort of his sorrowful disciples, here promises that he would visit them again.
I. Observe the intimation he gave them of the comfort he designed them, Joh 16:16. Here he…
Cambridge Bible
A woman Or, The woman, like -the servant" (Joh 15:15): in each case the article is generic, expressing the general law. The figure is frequent in O.T.; Isa 66:7; Hos 13:13; Mic 4:9. See on Mar…
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