Best Bury Burying Burying-place Burying-places Chief Choice Choicest Dead Grave Graves Hinder Listen Mayest Midst Mighty None Prince Refuse Rest Resting-places Sepulcher Sepulchers Sepulchre Sepulchres Tomb Tombs Truly Withhold
23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a {b} mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
{b} That is godly or excellent: for so do the Hebrews speak of all things that are notable, because all excellency comes from God.
23:6 Thou art a prince of God among us - So the word is; not only great, but good. He called himself a stranger and a sojourner, they call him a great prince.
23:1-13 The longest life must shortly come to a close. Blessed be God that there is a world where sin, death, vanity, and vexation cannot enter. Blessed be his name, that even death cannot part believers from union with Christ. Those whom we most love, yea, even our own bodies, which we so care for, must soon become loathsome lumps of clays, and be buried out of sight. How loose then should we be to all earthly attachments and adornments! Let us seek rather that our souls be adorned with heavenly graces. Abraham rendered honour and respect to the princes of Heth, although of the ungodly Canaanites. The religion of the Bible enjoins to pay due respect to all in authority, without flattering their persons, or countenancing their crimes if they are unworthy characters. And the noble generosity of these Canaanites shames and condemns the closeness, selfishness, and ill-humour of many that call themselves Israelites. It was not in pride that Abraham refused the gift, because he scorned to be beholden to Ephron; but in justice and in prudence. Abraham was able to pay for the field, and therefore would not take advantage of Ephron's generosity. Honesty, as well as honour, forbids us to take advantage of our neighbour's liberality, and to impose, upon those who give freely.
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Aces Best Bury Burying Chief Choice Choicest Dead es Grave Graves Great Hear Hinder Mayest Mighty Prince Refuse Rest Resting-Places Sepulcher Sepulchers Sepulchre Sepulchres Sir Tomb Tombs Withhold
