John 16:21
Douay-Rheims
A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John Chrysostom
(Hom. lxxix) By this example He also intimates that He loosens the chains of death, and creates men anew. He does not say however that she should not have tribulation, but that she should not remember it; so great is the joy which follows. And so is it with the saints. He saith not, that a boy is born, but that a man, a tacit allusion to His own resurrection.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 16:16-22
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.