He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
Ver. 2. He shall enter into peace,] i.e., Into heaven, where the righteous - however looked upon as lost Isa 57:1 - shall have "life and peace," Rom 8:6 joy and bliss, Matthew 25:21 ; Mat 25:23 rest and peace, Rev 14:13 and this απαρτι amodo, strait upon it so soon as ever they are dead; from henceforth forthwith their souls have happiness inconceivable. As for their bodies,
They shall rest in their beds.] So their graves are called, by an elegant metaphor, like as the bier that carrieth to it is called matteh, a couch, 2Sa 3:31 the burying place, a dormitory, a or place to sleep in, and the resurrection an awakening. Psa 17:15 To this bed Moses went up when his Father bade. He died ad os Iehovae according to the word of God, Deu 34:5 which the Jewish doctors b expound as though God did take away his soul with a kiss, like as the loving mother kisseth the child, and then layeth it down to sleep. Rhodingus, a Dutch divine, when he perceived he should die, desired to be laid in another bed, which he called his bed of rest, and upon which he had long before written this verse - c
“ Ut somnus mortis, sic lectus imago sepulchri. ”
In this short bed of the grave shall be laid up the infinite miseries of many years; the bodies of the saints shall, by rotting, be refined, their precious dust preserved, till at last it arise incorruptible. O dieculam illam!
Each one walking in his uprightness.] Or, Walking before him, or right over against him; that is, keeping equipage with him, as when one friend walketh with another.
a κοιμητηριον .
b Maimonid.
c Melch. Adam.