xii. 15), "Rejoice with them that do rejoice," and to the saying,

"Distributed joy is doubled joy, distributed sorrow is half sorrow;" and an admonition to leave man alone with his joy, instead of urging him to distribute it, does not run parallel with the first clause. Therefore we interpret the future as _potentialis._--_Delitzsch._

Not to let a man be private in his house is a great injury, but not to let a man be private in his heart is a wrong inexcusable. And yet this is the strange presumption of some. They know the _heart_ of another; they know what troubles it and what pains it. Perhaps by some discoveries thou mayest have some conjectures; but let not a small conjecture make thee a great offender. Wrong not another with unjust surmising. Every key a man meets with is not the right key to this lock; every likelihood thou apprehendest is not a sure sign to make thee know the heart of another.--_Jermin._

_"A knowing heart is a bitterness to itself; but with its joy it does not hold intercourse as an enemy."_ We venture upon this translation. We find no spiritual sense in the one heretofore given. . . . A heart spiritually enlightened is a bitterness to itself on the principle which Christ meant when He said, He "came not to send peace, but a sword" (Matt. x. 34); but with its joy, weak as it may be, and small and easily clouded, "it does not," as the impenitent do, "hold intercourse as with an enemy." His _joy_ is like his _bitterness,_ a friend; and all will work in opposite direction to the joy of the wicked.--_Miller._

Eli could not enter into the "bitterness of soul" of Hannah (1 Sam.