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Pro_15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.
Ver. 30. The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.] Light and sight are very comfortable. He was a mad fool that being warned of wine by the physicians as hurtful to his eyes, cried out, Vale lumen amicum; - If they will not bear with wine, they are no eyes for me. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is to behold the sun." {Ecc_11:7} Eudoxus professed that he would be willing to be burnt up by the sun presently, so he might be admitted to come so near it as to behold the beauty of it, and to see further into the the nature of it. {a}
And a good report maketh the bones fat.] Fama bona, vel auditio bona; - A good name, or good news. Ego si bonam famam servasso, sat dives ero, saith he in Plautus. It is riches enough to be well reputed and reported of. It is çäéóôïí áêïõóìá , {b} the sweetest hearing. It pleased David well that "whatsoever he did pleased the people." It pleased St John well that his friend "Demetrius had a good report of the truth," {3Jn_1:12} and he "had no greater joy than to hear that his children walked in the truth." Pindarus could say that the bath doth not so refresh the bones as a good name doth the heart.
{a} Plutarch.
{b} Xenophon.