Apocalypse 9:6
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et in diebus illis quærent homines mortem, et non invenient eam : et desiderabunt mori, et fugiet mors ab eis.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις ζητήσουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι τὸν θάνατον καὶ οὐ μὴ εὑρήσουσιν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐπιθυμήσουσιν ἀποθανεῖν καὶ φεύγει ὁ θάνατος ἀπʼ αὐτῶν.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus, Book II. On the Belief in the Resurrection
39. So, then, death is not only not an evil, but is even a good thing. So that it is sought as a good, as it is written: “Men shall seek death and shall not find it.” They will seek it who shall say to the mountains: “Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us.” That soul, too, shall seek it which has sinned. That rich man lying in hell shall seek it, who wishes that his tongue should be cooled with the finger of Lazarus.