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Pro_13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.
Ver. 12. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.] Hope’s hours are full of eternity; and how many see we lie languishing at hope’s hospital, as he at the pool of Bethesda! Spes interrenis incerti nomen boni spes in divinis nomen est certissimi {Heb_11:1} Hope unfailable {Rom_5:5} is founded upon faith unfeigned. {1Ti_1:5}
But when the desire cometh.] As come it will to those that wait patiently upon God; for waiting is but hope and trust lengthened. Deo confisi, nunquam confusi. "The vision is but for an appointed time; therefore wait," {Hab_2:3} you shall be well paid for your patience. We are apt to antedate the promises, and to set God a time, as they {Jer_8:20} looked for salvation at summer at furthest. We are short breathed, short spirited. But as God seldom comes at our time, so he never fails at his own; and then he is most sweet, because most seasonable.