Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 49:25

25 Even by the God of thy father , who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee, with blessings of heaven above , blessings of the deep that lieth under , blessings of the breasts and of the womb .

Here he explains and determines that doubtful expression from thence, by adding, even by (or rather from, as this particle M[illegible: 1+ letters]m properly signifies, and was just now used) the God of thy father, i. e. who hath chosen and loved thy father, and made a league with him, and blessed him with all manner of blessings.

(i. e.) The sweet and powerful influences of the heavenly bodies, and the dews and rains which fall from heaven, whereby the fruits of the earth are produced in great plenty. See Levit. 26. 4. Deut. 28. 12. and 33. 14.

(i. e.) Of that great sea of waters both about the earth and in the earth, whence come those springs and rivers by which the earth is moistned and made fruitful. See Gen. 1. 2. and 7. 11. and Deut. 8. 7.

Whereby both men and beasts shall be greatly multiplyed and abundantly supplied with all necessaries. This was true. 1. in the extent of the blessings. Ihmael was excluded from Abrahams blessing, and my brother excluded from Isaacs blessing, but both Josephs children are comprehended in Jacobs blessing. 2. In the distinctness and clearness of them. For that land of Canaan, which was transmitted to Isaac and to Jacob onely in the general, was now in some sort particularly distributed to Joseph and to the rest of his brethren, as afterwards it was by Joshua. 3. in the nearness of the accomplishment. Now there was a more likely prospect of the multiplication of their seed, then there was to Abraham or Isaac, and in not very many years after this they multiplied to astonishment, and drew nearer to the possession of the promised land.