SEV Biblia, Chapter 48:21
Y dijo Israel a José: He aquí, yo muero, mas Dios será con vosotros, y os hará volver a la tierra de vuestros padres.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 48:21
Verse 21. Behold, I die] With what composure is this most awful word expressed! Surely of Jacob it might be now said, ""He turns his sight undaunted on the tomb;"" for though it is not said that he was full of days, as were Abraham and Isaac, yet he is perfectly willing to bid adieu to earthly things, and lay his body in the grave. Could any person act as the patriarchs did in their last moments, who had no hopes of eternal life, no belief in the immortality of the soul? Impossible! With such a conviction of the being of God, with such proofs of his tenderness and regard, with such experience of his providential and miraculous interference in their behalf, could they suppose that they were only creatures of a day, and that God had wasted so much care, attention, providence, grace, and goodness, on creatures who were to be ultimately like the beasts that perish? The supposition that they could have no correct notion of the immortality of the soul is as dishonourable to God as to themselves. But what shall we think of Christians who have formed this hypothesis into a system to prove what? Why, that the patriarchs lived and died in the dark! That either the soul has no immortality, or that God has not thought proper to reveal it. Away with such an opinion! It cannot be said to merit serious refutation.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-22 - The two good men own God in their comforts. Joseph says, They are m sons whom God has given me. Jacob says, God hath showed me thy seed Comforts are doubly sweet to us when we see them coming from God' hand. He not only prevents our fears, but exceeds our hopes. Jaco mentions the care the Divine providence had taken of him all his days A great deal of hardship he had known in his time, but God kept his from the evil of his troubles. Now he was dying, he looked upon himsel as redeemed from all sin and sorrow for ever. Christ, the Angel of the covenant, redeems from all evil. Deliverances from misery and dangers by the Divine power, coming through the ransom of the blood of Christ in Scripture are often called redemption. In blessing Joseph's sons Jacob crossed hands. Joseph was willing to support his first-born, an would have removed his father's hands. But Jacob acted neither by mistake, nor from a partial affection to one more than the other; but from a spirit of prophecy, and by the Divine counsel. God, in bestowin blessings upon his people, gives more to some than to others, mor gifts, graces, and comforts, and more of the good things of this life He often gives most to those that are least likely. He chooses the wea things of the world; he raises the poor out of the dust. Grace observe not the order of nature, nor does God prefer those whom we thin fittest to be preferred, but as it pleases him. How poor are they wh have no riches but those of this world! How miserable is a death-bed to those who have no well-grounded hope of good, but dreadfu apprehensions of evil, and nothing but evil for ever __________________________________________________________________
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