And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he
died,
&c.] Which age of his may be divided into three equal
periods, forty years in Pharaoh's court, forty years in Midian,
and forty in the care and government of Israel, in Egypt and in
the wilderness; so long he lived, though the common age of man in
his time was but threescore years and ten, ( Psalms 90:10
) ; and what is most extraordinary is,
his eyes were not dim;
as Isaac's were, and men at such an age, and under, generally be:
nor his natural force abated;
neither the rigour of his mind nor the strength of his body; his
intellectuals were not decayed, his memory and judgment; nor was
his body feeble, and his countenance aged; his "moisture" was not
"fled" F13, as it may be rendered, his radical
moisture; he did not look withered and wrinkled, but plump and
sleek, as if he was a young man in the prime of his days: this
may denote the continued use of the ceremonial law then to direct
to Christ, and the force of the moral law as in the hands of
Christ, requiring obedience and conformity to it, as a rule of
walk and conversation, ( 1
Corinthians 9:21 ) .