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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness:" i.e., doth not feel pleasure over those that suffer ill: and not this only, but also, what is much greater, "rejoiceth with the truth." "She feels pleasure," saith he, "with them that are well spoken of," as Paul saith, "Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep." Hence, she "envieth not," hence she "is not puffed up:" since in fact she accounts the good things of others her own. Seest thou how by degrees love makes her nursling an angel? …
Basil of Caesarea
Cast off the sullenness of an angry man which you are evincing by your silence, and regain joy in your heart, peace toward your likeminded brothers and sisters, and zeal and solicitude for the preservation of the churches of the Lord.
Letter 65, TO ATARBIUS
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, it does not rejoice when someone suffers injustice, experiences violence and insult. But, he says, what is far more important, he rejoices together with those who are in good repute, and counts it as his own glory when the truth prospers. This is against the envious.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Secondly, charity excludes an inordinate love for evil; hence he says: it does not rejoice in wrong. For one who sins from passion commits sin with some remorse and sorrow, but one who sins from choice rejoices in the fact that he commits sin, as it says in Pr (2:14): "You rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perseverance of evil." But charity prevents this, inasmuch as it is the love of the supreme good, to Whom all sin is obnoxious. …
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