replaced by joy, but of turning into it. The very same thing, the cross, would be to them first a cause of sorrow but later a source of joy. This corresponds to the illustration that follows. In childbirth it is the same thing what is first a source of pain, then of joy. Jesus is not speaking of anguish that would be replaced by a quite different joy.49 Calvin sees a further thought: “Christ means that the sorrow which they will endure for the sake of the Gospel will be fruitful.” 21 Elsewhere in