Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:20

20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Isaac is the next Example instanced in of the same Divine Faith, described, v. 1. only here exercised on the special Revelation of God to him concerning his Seed. By this Faith he did not only wish and pray Blessings, but prophetically applied them to his two Sons, to Iacob and Israel his Seed; the Covenant-Blessings; and to Esau and the Edomites his Seed, the Temporary Blessings, God d[illegible: 1 letter]signed them, Gen. 27.27, 39. Both these were things to come, and to be communicated to their Seeds hundreds of years after. As the things that concerned Iacob, to come, which were not seen, but hoped for from God's Revelation of them were, Plenty, Dominion over Brethren, Blessings above the Power of a Curse, even the spiritual and covenanted ones of Abraham and Isaac with him, Gen. 27.28, 29. The things to come concerning Esau and his Seed, were only earthy, temporal Blessings, escape out of Servitude in time, common good things at the highest, Gen. 27.39, 40. By Faith Isaac foresaw all these future Events, fore-told them, and applied their several Portions to them from the Mouth of God, and they were to a tittle fulfilled, 2 Sam. 8.14. and 2 Kings 8.20. as to the Edomites, as in the whole Old Testament unto Iacob, and to his Seed literal and spiritual.