Why does He seem to lament that this father should so urgently plead for his son?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
"I am dying to say something," said the Judge in response to her lament over her decaying morals, "but I don't dare."
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
But the burden of his lament-"the worst of it" all-is, that her purity was once his salvation, her past kindness has for ever glorified his life; that she is dishonoured, and through him, and that no gratitude of his, no power of his, can rescue her from that dishonour.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr