Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 7:30

30 And they that weep, as though they wept not : and they that rejoyce, as though they rejoyced not : and they that buy, as though they possessed not .

This consideration also should weigh with those who have a more afflicted portion in this life, and are mourners for the loss of their near relations, they have but lost what they could not long have kept, and for the time they kept them, must have enjoyed them probably with a great deal of sorrow and bitterness.

And so for any of those who rejoyced in any worldly enjoyments, the shortness of the time they are like to have them to rejoyce in, should admonish them to govern and moderate their joy, for it is like to be but like the crackling of thorns under a pot.

And those that have liberal possessions of good things in this life, they should look upon them as none of theirs, and use them as not like to be their possessions long.