Jacob Blessed and Esau Cursed

At the time of which we now write, Isaac was one hundred and thirty-seven years old. The notice, "Isaac was old and his eyes were dim" seems to imply that the frame of this patriarch had noticeably weakened with years, that his former bodily vigor had given way to a physical debility betokening the approach of death, though death did not come to him until forty- seven years after. That Isaac's thoughts had turned to the hour of his decease, that he felt as if his hour might soon strike, is...