John Calvin on Genesis 47:30

30. But I will lie with my fathers Dormaim, “I will sleep.” It appears from this passage, that the word “sleep,” whenever it is put for “die,” does not refer to the soul, but to the body. For, what did it concern him, to be buried with his fathers in the double cave, The cave of Machpelah. See above, on Genesis 23:9. — Ed. unless to testify that he was associated with them after death? And by what bond were he and they joined together, except this, that not even death itself could extinguish the power of their faith; which would seem to utter this voice from the same sepulcher, Now also we have a common inheritance.