“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Prince of God, powerful and holy, and worthy of respect. Bible.—A great prince. See Acts 7:5 where S. Stephen says, that God did not give Abraham a foot of land, meaning as an inheritance; and that Abraham bought this double cave, for a sepulchre, of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem; ( Calmet.) from which latter he seems to derive the name of the place, which is here called Hebron. Bible.—Nothing is more common, than for men and places to have two names; though some think, the name of Abraham has been inserted in the Acts by a mistake of the copyists, when Jacob was meant. See G. 33:19. Calmet.