Genesis 46:4

4. I will go down with thee into Egypt And if God be with us, who can be against us?

And I will also surely bring thee up “Wonderfully worded promise! Personally, he was then bidding those scenes an everlasting farewell; but in the mediatorial nation which was to spring from him, and with which, as heir of God’s covenant, he was identified, he would return again . In this hope, by faith, he was to be glad though he die in Egypt, for it is added immediately, Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes, to close them in death; the last sad duty of love . Ancient writers of other nations frequently make pathetic allusion to this last ministration of affection. (Compare Homer’s Iliad, 11: 453; Odyssey, 11: 426; 24:296; Ovid, Heroides, 1: 102, etc.”) Newhall.