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Gen_47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Ver. 9. The days of the years of my pilgrimage.] All saints here are sojourners, all good people "pilgrims and strangers." {1Pe_2:11 Heb_11:13-14} Far they are from home, and meet with hard measure; as Israel did in Egypt; as those three worthies in Babylon. {Dan_3:23} Their manners are of another manner: hence the world owns them not. {Joh_15:19} But God both owns and honours them; he knows their whole way; {Psa_1:6} "leads them in his hand"; {Isa_63:13} "guides them with his eye"; {Psa_32:8} "bears them in his bosom," {Isa_40:11} when ways are rough and rugged; provides "mansions" {Joh_14:2-3} for them, where they shall "rest in their beds," {Isa_57:2} feast "with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," {Mat_8:11} walk arm in arm with angels, {Zec_3:7} be "gathered to their people," {Gen_25:8 Heb_12:23} to their God, to their Christ," &c. - Provided that, in the meanwhile, they "set their faces towards Sion, inquiring the way"; {Jer_50:4-5} that they walk therein "from strength to strength"; {Psa_84:7} that they take in good part any kindness, as Ruth did; {Rth_2:10} that they put up any unkindness, as Paul did; {Gal_4:12} that they make much of any company; {Psa_119:63} send home by any hand; {Neh_2:5} "abstain from fleshly lusts"; {1Pe_2:11} and have "their conversation in heaven"; {Php_3:20} eating, drinking, and sleeping eternal life; so wishing to be at home, yet waiting the Father’s call; sighing out, when moved to be merry, - as the French king did, when prisoner here in England, in the days of King Edward III, - "How can we sing songs in a strange land?" {Psa_137:4}