Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 48:16

16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them , and the name of my fathers, Abraham, and Isaac , and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the Earth.

Not surely a created Angel, but Christ Jesus, who is called an Angel, Exod. 23. 20. and the Angel of the covenant, Mal. 3. 1. who was the conductor of the Israelites in the wilderness, as plainly appears by comparing Exod. 23. 20, 21. with 1 Cor. 10. 4, 9. Add hereunto, that this Angel is called Iacobs redeemer, which is the title appropriated by God to himself, Isa. 43. 14. and 47. 4. and that from all evil, and therefore from sin, from which no created Angel can deliver us, but Christ onely, Mat. 1. 21. and that Iacob worshippeth and prayeth to this Angel no less than to God for the blessing, and that without any note of distinction, the word, bless, being in the singular number, and equally relating to God and to the Angel; and that the Angel to whom he here ascribes his deliverances from all evil must in all reason be the same to whom he prayed for these very deliverances which he here commemorates, and that was no other than the very God of Abraham, as is evident from Gen. 28. 15, 20, 21. and 32. 9, 10, 11. and 35. 3.

(i. e) Let them be called my name, owned for my immediate children, and invested with the same priviledges with my other children, be the heads of distinct tribes, and as such receive distinct inheritances. And hence they are called the children of Iacob or Israel, no less than the children of Ioseph. For the phrase, see Deut. 28. 10. 2 Chron. 7. 14. Isa. 4. 1. Ier. 14. 9.

Let them be called their children, let them not only have my blessing, but the blessings of Abraham and Isaac, let all meet together upon their heads, and let that gracious covenant of God made with Abraham, and confirmed with Isaac and me, be ratified and made good unto them.

Marginal references: chap. 31. 11, 13.; Heb. as fishes [illegible: 1 word]. See Numb. 26. 34, 37.