Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years… I. CONTRAST THIS POOR VANISHING LIFE OF OURS WITH THE GREAT CAPABILITIES OF OUR SOULS. II. CONSIDER SOME FACTS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE. 1. Consider the case of a man who dies full of days, 2. Consider the case of a man who dies before his time. 3. Consider the ease of the death-beds of some of the saints. III. OUR DUTY IN THE PRESENCE OF THESE FACTS. 1. Seek eternal life. 2. Look forward to the compensations of another world. (T. H. Leale.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. |
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