And thou shall go to thy fathers in peace
Or die, which is a going the way of all flesh, to a man's long
home, out of this world to another, to the world of spirits, to
those that are gone before them; which is no inconsiderable proof
of the immortality of the soul. Jarchi infers from hence, that
Terah, Abram's father, was a penitent, and died a good man, and
went to heaven, the place and state of the blessed, whither Abram
should go at death; but the phrase of going to the fathers is
used both of good and bad men: it is moreover said of Abram, that
he should go in peace; being freed from all the fatigues of his
journeying from place to place in his state of pilgrimage, and
not living to see the afflictions of his posterity, and to have
any share in them; and dying in spiritual peace, in tranquillity
of mind, knowing in whom he had believed, and where his salvation
was safe and secure, and whither he was going; for a good man
dies with peace of conscience, having his sins freely forgiven,
and he justified from them by the righteousness of the living
Redeemer, and enters into eternal peace, see ( Psalms 37:37
) :
thou shall be buried in a good old age;
this signifies that he should live long, see many days and good
ones, enjoy much health and prosperity, continue in the ways of
truth and righteousness to the end, and come to his grave like a
shock of corn fully ripe, and fit for an other world; and that he
should have a decent interment in the land of Canaan, where he
purchased a burial place, and which was a pledge and earnest of
the future possession of it by his seed, the thing here promised.