Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 19:41

41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

Those who of old blotted out this Sentence, as thinking that weeping was not becoming Christs Perfection, seem to have forgotten that he was perfect Man, and a sharer in all the natural in [illegible: 2 letters]rmities of humane Nature, (if weeping upon the prospect of Humane miseries, deserveth no better Name then an infirmity, being an indication of Love and Compassion.) Those who think that it was idle for him to Weep, for that which he might easily have helped, seem to oblige God to give out of his Grace, whether Men do what he hath commanded them and is in their Power to do yea or no Christ wept over Ierusalem as a Man, compassionating these poor Jews, with respect to the Miseries he saw coming upon them. As a Minister of the Gospel pitying the People to whom he was primarily sent.