My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Ver. 5. In my grave which I have digged for me.] A usual thing of old. 2Ch 16:14 Mat 27:60 See Trapp on " Gen 23:9 " Quintillus Plautianus, an ancient senator of Rome, in the days of Severus the Emperor, being wrongfully accused and condemned to die, desired before his death to see those things that he had long since laid by for his burial; a which when he saw to be little worth with long lying, Quid hoc rei est? inquit; itane cunctati sumus? What a thing is this? said he. Have we made no more haste to die than so? b
a Postulavit, ut ea quae ad sepulturam suam comparaverat, &c.
b τι τουτο εβραδυνωμεν. - Dio.