Lord Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy promise.
And an answer was given him of the holy ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Then took he him up in his arms and said:
I am constrained of two things: I desire to be lowsed, and to be with Christ, which thing is best of all:
¶ And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me: write: Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord, even so saith the spirit: that they may rest from their labors, but their works shall follow them.
and they cried with a loud voice saying: How long tarriest thou Lord holy and true, to judge and to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?