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John Wesley, Notes On the New Testament (1755):
I die, but God shall be with you, and
bring you again-This assurance was given them, and carefully preserved
among them, that they might neither love Egypt too much when it favoured
them, nor fear it too much when it frowned upon them. These words of
Jacob furnish us with comfort in reference to the death of our friends:
But God shall be with us, and his gracious presence is sufficient to
make up the loss. They leave us, but he will never fail us. He will
bring us to the land of our fathers, the heavenly Canaan, whither our
godly fathers are gone before us. If God be with us while we stay behind
in this world, and will receive us shortly to be with them that are gone
before to a better world, we ought not to sorrow as those that have no
hope.
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The Fourfold Gospel:
No comment on this verse.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* Behold. Ge 50:24; 1Ki 2:2-4; Ps 146:3,4; Zec 1:5,6; Lu 2:29; Ac 13:36;
2Ti 4:6 Heb 7:3,8,23-25; 2Pe 1:14
* God. Ge 15:14; 28:15; 46:4; De 1:1-46; 31:8; Jos 1:5; 3:7; 23:14;
24:1-33 Ps 18:46
* land. Ge 12:5; 26:3; 37:1
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
No comment on this verse.
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William Burkitt's Notes:
No comment on this verse.
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Family Bible Notes:
Strong confidence in the promises of God,
and good hope through grace that when absent from the body we shall be
present with the Lord, and that he will be the God of our children and
children's children to coming generations, gives peace and joy in death.
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
Which they had by faith in the promise
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People's New Testament Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Albert Barnes' Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die--The
patriarch could speak of death with composure, but he wished to prepare
Joseph and the rest of the family for the shock.
but God shall be with you--Jacob, in all probability, was not authorized
to speak of their bondage--he dwelt only on the certainty of their
restoration to Canaan.
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Spurgeon Devotional
Commentary:
Whoever dies, the Lord remains with his
people. Let us not be in despair, though the best of our friends or the
ablest of our ministers be taken from us.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
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.
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Matthew Henry Concise Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
