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Pro_27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Ver. 9. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart.] Sweet ointment, sensum afficit, spiritum reficit, cerebrum iuvat, affects the sense, refresheth the spirit, comforteth the brain.
So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.] It is as a fresh gale of sweet air to him that lives among walking dunghills, open sepulchres. It preserveth the soul as a pomander, and refresheth it more than musk or civet doth the brain. The counsel of such especially (ministers, I mean) of whom the Scripture saith, that they "are unto God a sweet savour of Christ unto them that are saved"; {2Co_2:15} these are they that can sell us oil for our lamps, that we may buy for ourselves. {Mat_25:9} Such a counsellor may be an angel, nay, a god to another, as Moses was to Aaron: the comfort given by such (as the blessing of parents) is usually most effectual, because they are in God’s room. See Job_33:23, "If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand," Unus e millibus not Unus e similibus as the Vulgate reads it falsely, and from the purpose.