29Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
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And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-40)Even when he humbles himself, still Christ has honour done him to balance the offence of it. That we might not be stumbled at the meanness of his birth, angels then did him honour; and now, that we may not be offended at his being presented in the temple, like other children born in sin, and without any manner of solemnity peculiar to him, but silently, and in the crowd of other children, Simeon a…
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