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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. This is the thing he appeals to Christ for the truth of, and calls in his conscience and the Holy Ghost to bear witness to. These two…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Great heaviness - Great grief. Continual sorrow - The word rendered “continual” here must be taken in a popular sense. Not that he was literally all the time pressed down with this sorrow, but that…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
that I have, &c. More lit. that I have great grief, and my heart has incessant pain. Very wonderful, and profoundly true, is this expression of intense grief just after the "joy unspeakable" of ch. 8.…
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