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Gen_26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
Ver. 13. And the man waxed great.] Because the Lord blessed him, {Gen_26:12} for it is his blessing that maketh rich. He sowed, and feared God, and the Lord blessed him. Godliness hath the promises of both lives. {1Ti_4:8} Now the promises are "the unsearchable riches of Christ," {Eph_3:6; Eph_3:9} who is "the heir of all," {Heb_1:2} and hath made godly men his co-heirs, {Rom_8:17} entailing upon them riches and honour, delight and pleasure, life and length of days, the blessings of both hands. {Pro_3:16-17; Pro_8:18; Deu_28:1-14 ; Psa_112:2-3} Godly men, in Scripture, are read to have been richer than any; as Abraham, Isaac, David, &c., so they might be now (likely) if they would be as godly, Bonus Deus Constantinum Magnum, tantis terrenis implevit muneribus, quanta optare nullus auderet, saith Augustine. {a} If God deny gain to godliness, it is that it may be admired for itself, as having an autarchy. ( ìåô ’ áõôáñêåéáò ), a self-sufficiency {1Ti_6:6} He makes up in the true treasure: and a grain of grace is worth all the gold of Ophir; a remnant of faith, better than all gay clothing. Achan’s wedge of gold served for no better purpose, than to cleave asunder his soul from his body; and the Babylonish garment but for a shroud. But, contented godliness, like Solomon’s good wife, "doth a man good, and not evil, all his days": {Pro_31:12} for it brings his mind and his means together, and makes him rest well assured of a sufficiency, though he miss of a superfluity.
{a} Aug. De Civ. Dei., lib. v. cap. 25.