Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 25:8

8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years , and was gathered to his people.

His soul was not required of him, as it was of that fool, Luk. 12. 20. not forced from him by sharp and violent diseases, but was quietly, easily, and chearfully yielded up by him into the hands of his merciful God and Father, as the word intimates.

Good both graciously, his hoary head being found in the way of righteousness, and naturally, free from the manifold infirmities and calamities of old age. Of which see Eccles. 12. 1. &c.

In the Hebrew it is onely, full, or satisfied; but you must understand with days or years, as the phrase is fully expressed Gen. 35. 29. 1 Chron. 23. 1. and 29. 28. Iob 42. 17. Ier. 6. 11. When he had lived as long as he desired, being in some sort weary of life and desirous to be dissolved: or full of all good, as the Chaldee renders it, satisfied, as it is said of Naphtali, Deut. 33. 23. with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord, upon himself, and upon his Children.

To his godly Progenitours, the former Patriarchs, to the Congregation of the just in heaven, Heb. 12. 23. in regard of his soul: For it cannot be meant of his body, which was not joyned with them in the place of burial, as the phrase is Isa. 14. 20. but buried in a strange Land, where onely Sarahs body lay. And it is observed, that this phrase is used of none but good men, of which the Jews were so fully perswaded, that from this very expression used concerning Ishmael here below, ver. 17. they infer his Repentance and Salvation. See this phrase Gen. 15. 15. and 49. 29. Numb. 20. 24. and 27. 13. Iudg. 2. 10.

Marginal references: Or, days. See Chap. 35. 29.