And behold, the Lord stood above it
Ordering, directing, and overruling all things in Providence, for
the glory of his name and the good of his people; and may
signify, as the ladder may be a figure of Christ, that Jehovah
the Father, is above him, as man and Mediator, and makes himself
known in and by him, and delivers out all his blessings and
promises through him, both temporal and spiritual, and such as
follow: and said, I [am] the Lord God of Abraham thy
father, and the God of
Isaac:
their covenant God and Father in Christ, who had made promises
unto them, and bestowed blessings upon them; and the same was and
would continue to be the God of Jacob, which is strongly
intimated: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give
it, and to thy seed;
meaning not that small pittance of land only on which his body
then lay, and which it covered, but all the land of which it was
a part, even the whole land of Canaan; hereby entailing it on him
and his seed, and so explaining and confirming the blessing of
his father Isaac; and by which it appears, that all that had been
done was under a divine direction, and according to the will of
God.