Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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or sickness. He died by degrees; his candle
was not blown out, but gradually burnt down
to the socket, so that he saw, at some distance,
the time drawing nigh.
Note, It is an improvable advantage to see the
approach of death before we feel its arrests,
that we may be quickened to do what our hand
finds to do with all our might: however, it is
not far from any of us. Now Jacob's care, as he
saw the day approaching, was about his burial,
not the pomp of it (he was no way solicitous
about that), but the place of it.
(1.) He would be buried in Canaan. This he
resolved on, not from mere humour, because
Canaan was the land of his nativity, but in
faith, because it was the land of promise
(which he desired thus, as it were, to keep
possession of, till the time should come when
his posterity should be masters of it), and
because it was a type of heaven, that better
country which he that said these things
declared plainly that he was in expectation of,
Heb 11:14. He aimed at a good land, which
would be his rest and bliss on the other side
death.