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Gen_24:1 And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Ver. 1. And Abraham was old.] Non tam canis et annis, quam virtutibus et sapientia gravis , as one saith of Atticus. {a} Abraham had a good gray head, as it is elsewhere said of him: hence, so honoured not only at home, but by the Hittites. {Gen_23:6} Cognata sunt ãíñáò et ãåñáò ( ut çèïò et åèïò ), old age and honour are near akin in the Greek tongue. And God bids, "honour the face of the old man"; {Lev_19:32} for the hoary head is a crown, so that it be found in the way of righteousness. God is called "the Ancient of days": and, because "holy," therefore "reverend is his name," as saith the psalmist. {Psa_111:9} But it is a poor praise to Nectarius, who succeeded Nazianzen in the church of Antioch, that he was veneranda canitie et vultu sacerdote digno, a comely old man, and of a bishop like visage, and that was all that could be said for him. {b}
{a} Beurer. in Vita Attici.
{b} Si prolixa faeit sapientem barba, quid obstat barbatus posset quin caper esse Plato? - Baron. Annal.