And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
2. I know not the day of my death ] Isaac expects that death is at hand, and fears lest he should die without having pronounced the blessing on his son. The dying utterance was deemed prophetic Gen 48:21, Gen 50:24 ; 2Sa 23:1-5.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 2. I know not the day of my death] From his present weakness he had reason to suppose that his death could not be at any great distance, and therefore would leave no act undone which he believed it his duty to perform. He who lives not in reference to eternity, lives not at all.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And he said, behold, now I am old,….
[See comments on Ge 27:1]:
I know not the day of my death; how soon it will be; everyone knows he must die, but the day and hour he knows not, neither young nor old; and though young men may promise themselves many days and years, an old man cannot, but must or should live in the constant expectation of death.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2. Behold, now I am old, I know not the day of my death. There is not the least doubt that Isaac implored daily blessings on his sons all his life: this, therefore, appears to have been an extraordinary kind of benediction. Moreover, the declaration that he knew not the day of his death, is as much as if he had said, that death was every moment pressing so closely upon him, a decrepit and failing man, that he dared not promise himself any longer life. Just as a woman with child when the time of parturition draws near, might say, that she had now no day certain. Every one, even in the full vigor of age, carries with him a thousand deaths. Death claims as its own the foetus in the mother’s womb, and accompanies it through every stage of life. But as it urges the old more closely, so they ought to place it more constantly before their eyes, and should pass as pilgrims through the world, or as those who have already one foot in the grave. In short, Isaac, as one near death, wishes to leave the Church surviving him in the person of his son.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
2. Know not the day of my death He lived forty-three years after this . Gen 35:28.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Dying patriarchs always called their households round them. Gen 49:1 ; Deu 33:1 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Ver. 2. I am old, I know not the day of my death. ] No more doth any, though never so young. There be as many young skulls as old, in Golgotha. But, young men, we say, may die; old men must die. To the old, death is pro ianuis; to the young, in insidiis. Senex, quasi semi-nex. Old men have pedem in cymba Charontis, one foot in the grave already. Our decrepit age both expects death, and solicits it: it goes grovelling, as groaning for the grave. Whence Terence a calls an old man Silicernium; and the Greeks , , of looking toward the ground, whither he is tending; or, as others will have it, of loving earth and earthly things; which old folk greedily grasp at, because they fear they shall not have to suffice them while alive, and to bring them honestly home, as they say, when they are dead; as Plutarch gives the reason, b
a Vel quod curvus silices cernat; vel quod mox silentiqus umbris cernendus sit. – Ter, in Adelph.
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Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I know not: Gen 48:21, 1Sa 20:3, Pro 27:1, Ecc 9:10, Isa 38:1, Isa 38:3, Mar 13:35, Jam 4:14
Reciprocal: Gen 31:18 – for to go Gen 35:29 – Isaac Heb 11:13 – all died
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 27:2. I know not the day of my death How soon I may die; a declaration which every man may make, and which every man ought well to consider, and lay to heart. It is great mercy and wisdom in God to conceal from us the time of our dissolution. Hereby foreboding fear on the one hand, and vain presumption on the other, are prevented, and a strong motive is afforded us always to live and walk in the Spirit, and be like men waiting for their lord, that when Jesus cometh to call us hence, we may be found prepared to meet him.
Is death uncertain?
Therefore be thou fixd:
Fixd as a sentinel; all eye, all ear:
All expectation of the coming foe.