I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Ver. 4. That I may bury my dead out of my sight.] She that had been "the desire of his eyes," Eze 24:16 the sweet companion of his life, is by death so defaced, that he loathes to look on her. This we are to think on in our mourning for the dead; to bewail the common curse of mankind, the defacing of God's image by death through sin, &c. And yet to comfort ourselves in this, that these "vile bodies" of ours, shall once be "conformed to Christ's glorious body," Php 3:21 the standard in incorruption, agility, beauty, brightness, and other most blessed and inconceivable parts and properties.