The TREE OF LIFE is a weekly teaching summary. The Doctrine of Weeping Part. Paul constantly warned his listeners how far reversionism can carry someone from the doctrines they once considered wonderful, such as the Cross, the Grace of God, the Royal Family Honor Code, and true Fellowship. The thrust of his teaching is a permanent monument to the importance of persistence in studying and teaching, by which all believers grow spiritually. Every true man has true emotion, and there is something wrong with the man who never weeps.
Legitimate weeping is an expression of emotion in the soul.
Self-consciousness is of no use without mentality. Human volition was created to resolve the angelic conflict. In normal function, the right lobe of the soul, where the mentality is located, dominates the emotion. Abnormally, the emotion rules the mentality, allowing neurosis and psychosis to set in. Paul was thinking of all the great friends he had known in the past, and at the time that he wrote this epistle, these very same people have not only turned against him, but worse, they have turned against the Cross.