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Yes, may you see your children`s children. Peace be upon Israel.
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Personal and Communal Blessing
Commentators explain that this verse presents a complete picture of God's blessing. It includes the deeply personal joy of seeing one's family flourish for generations ("children's children") and the essential communal blessing of "peace upon Israel." True happiness, as described here, involves both a healthy family and a thriving community of faith.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children—This is a continuation of the idea of blessedness as connected with a numerous posterit…
19th Century
Anglican
Children’s children. —Dr. Perowne illustrates from Virgil: “adspicies ... natos natorum et qui nascentur ab illis…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, you shall see your children's children A numerous race of descendants from him, which are the crown and glory o…
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