Verse 8
8. Gave up the ghost Hebrews, breathed out . He seems to have died of old age, and in a good old age, according to the promises of Genesis 15:15.
An old man, and full of years Rather, old and full .
His was a well-rounded and completed life.
Gathered to his people Not buried in the ancestral tomb, for this was not the case; nor is the expression equivalent to burial, for that is separately mentioned in the next verse; but gathered where his people were yet living an immortal life. See on Genesis 15:15. Abraham’s faith “looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God . ” And he died in this faith, “not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off . ” Evidently he desired and sought a heavenly land; not that from which he emigrated . See Hebrews 11:10-16. And long after, in the days of Moses Jehovah said, “I am the God of Abraham.” Exodus 3:6. But “ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” Matthew 22:32.
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