For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Ver. 21. And to die is gain] Because death to a good man is the daybreak of eternal brightness, ianua vitae, porta caeli, the door to life, the gate to heaven, as Bernard hath it, a valley of Achor, a door of hope to give entrance into Paradise, to bring them malorum omnium ademptionem, bonorum omnium adeptionem. freedom from all evils and the reception of all that is good.