George Leo Haydock, on Prov 13:12

“Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh is a tree of life.”

“Hope. Septuagint, “(the just shews mercy and lends) better is he who begins heartily to assist, than he who promises and leads to hope. For a bad (Grabe substitutes good) desire is a tree of life.” — Soul. Protestants, “maketh the heart sick.” (Haydock) — The pain increases in proportion to our eager desire. Calvin maintains, that the souls of the blessed are not yet in heaven, but hope: and of course he would establish a sort of purgatory for them. (Haydock)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.