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Act 20:37. Ἱκανὸς, great) The tenderest and sweetest affections reign here. No book in the world equals Scripture, even as regards τὰ ἤθη καὶ πάθη, the manners and affections.-πάντων, of all) Even tears are a proof of how much the successive ages of men degenerate. Formerly both men and good men, and heroes themselves (even among the Gentiles), were readily moved to tears, even in a body collectively. Jdg 2:4-5; 1Sa 30:4. Now when all things are more effeminate than they were then, yet the giving way to tears is permitted only in women and boys. John Hornbeck, l. 6, Theol. pract. c. 8, beautifully discusses the subject of pious tears.
Ὀδυνώμενοι, grieving) How great hereafter will be the grief (of the lost), to be deprived of the sight of GOD, of the angels, and of the elect![124]
[124] Bengel, J. A. (1860). Vol. 2: Gnomon of the New Testament (M. E. Bengel & J. C. F. Steudel, Ed.) (A. R. Fausset, Trans.) (621-692). Edinburgh: T&T Clark.