John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 7. And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he died , etc.] Which age of his may be divided into three equal periods, forty years in Pharaoh’s court, forty years in Midian, and forty in the care and government of Israel, in Egypt and in the wilderness; so long he lived, though the common age of man in his time was but threescore years and ten, ( Psalm 90:10); and what is most extraordinary is, his eyes were not dim ; as Isaac’s were, and men at such an age, and under, generally be: nor his natural force abated ; neither the rigour of his mind nor the strength of his body; his intellectuals were not decayed, his memory and judgment; nor was his body feeble, and his countenance aged; his “moisture” was not “fled” f680 , as it may be rendered, his radical moisture; he did not look withered and wrinkled, but plump and sleek, as if he was a young man in the prime of his days: this may denote the continued use of the ceremonial law then to direct to Christ, and the force of the moral law as in the hands of Christ, requiring obedience and conformity to it, as a rule of walk and conversation, ( 1 Corinthians 9:21).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-8 - Moses obeyed this command of God as willingly as any other, though i seemed harder. In this he resembled our Lord Jesus Christ. But he die in honour, in peace, and in the most easy manner; the Saviour died upo the disgraceful and torturing cross. Moses died very easily; he die "at the mouth of the Lord," according to the will of God. The servant of the Lord, when they have done all their other work, must die a last, and be willing to go home, whenever their Master sends for them Ac 21:13. The place of his burial was not known. If the soul be at res with God, it is of little consequence where the body rests. There wa no decay in the strength of his body, nor in the vigour and activity of his mind; his understanding was as clear, and his memory as strong a ever. This was the reward of his services, the effect of his extraordinary meekness. There was solemn mourning for him. Yet ho great soever our losses have been, we must not give ourselves up to sorrow. If we hope to go to heaven rejoicing, why should we go to the grave mourning?
Original Hebrew ומשׁה4872 בן1121 מאה3967 ועשׂרים6242 שׁנה8141 במתו4194 לא3808 כהתה3543 עינו5869 ולא3808 נס5127 לחה׃3893
