Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 46:4

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up again : and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes .

Though not in thy person, yet in thy body, Gen. 47. 29, 30. and 50. 5, 13. and in thy posterity, which are a part of thy self, or thy self multiplyed.

Shall close thy eyes; which office was usually performed by the nearest and dearest relations of the dying party among the Iews, Greeks and Romans. Hereby Iacob is assured that he should die in peace, and that Ioseph both now was alive, and should survive his father.