The righteous one, hath perished, And not a man, hath taken it to heart - Yea the men of lovingkindness, have been withdrawn No one considering, That from the presence of calamity, hath the righteous been withdrawn.

I am held in constraint, however, by reason of the two, - having, the coveting, to be released, and to be with, Christ, for it were far better!

And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying - Write! Happy, the dead who, in the Lord, do die, from henceforth. Yea! (saith the Spirit) that they may rest from their toils, for, their works, do follow with them.

According

and it had been intimated to him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.

General references

Then said Israel unto Joseph I am ready to die at last, - now that I have seen thy face, in that thou art, yet alive.

Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, for there is a hereafter for the man of peace;

But happy are, your, eyes, that they see, and your ears, that they hear;