get you down] Egypt lay lower then Canaan, and therefore when Joseph sends his brethren for his father to Canaan, he saith, goe up, Chap. 45. ver. 9. but when he bids them bring his father into Egypt, he saith, Bring him downe hither, vers. 13. and Egypt lying lower was the fitter to be made fruitfull by the overflowing of Nilus. See Annot. on Chap. 13. 5: 1. See also, Chap. 46. vers. 4. live and not die] (Chap. 43. 8. Psalms 118:17. Isaiah 38:1.) To live, and not die, is all one; yet the phrase is not idly, either varied, or doubled, but to expresse a strong affection in the speaker, and to imprint the like in the mind of the hearer; and sometimes the first imports a blessing of long life, the second a preservation from the second death by which damnation is noted, Revelation 20:6. 14.