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Num_21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Ver. 4. Discouraged because of the way.] So are many in their voyage towards heaven, which is an afflicted way, ôåèëéììåíç ç ïäïò , {Mat_7:14} strawed with crosses. {Act_14:22} Indeed, if men could go to heaven in a feather bed, or pass e coeno in coelum, a deliciis ad delicias, feed on manchet, tread on roses, fly to heaven with pleasant wings, none should be so forward as they. But to go "through fire and through water," {Psa_66:12} to "run with patience the race that is set before them," {Heb_12:1} and "through many tribulations to enter into heaven," this they like not. Theotimus in Ambrose, would rather lose his sight than his sin: Vale lumen amicum, said he, when forbidden wine, as naught for his eyes. Beetles love dunghills better than ointments, and swine love mud better than a garden; so do swinish epicures prefer earth to heaven, &c.