“And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.”
Israel said to Joseph: now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive. The declaration — now I am ready to die — is the declaration of Simeon in Luke 2:29: now, Lord, you may dismiss your servant in peace, for my eyes have seen your salvation. Jacob has seen what he most needed to see; the rest of his life can be given in peace. The application: the experience of seeing the living person you mourned as dead is the experience that resolves the deepest grief.
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