Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces… Mr. Moody once said, "Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone up higher, that is all; gone out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal, a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint, a body like unto His own glorious body." Robert Hall's death: — Mrs. Hall, observing a change on the countenance of her husband, became alarmed, and exclaimed. "This cannot be dying!" He replied, "It is death; it is death — death!" Mrs. Hall then asked him, "Are you comfortable in your mind?" He immediately answered, "Very comfortable — very comfortable!" And exclaimed, "Come, Lord Jesus, come —" He hesitated, as if incapable of bringing out the last word. One of his daughters anticipated him by saying "Quickly," on which her departing father gave her a look expressive of the most complacent delight. (King's Highway.) Parallel Verses KJV: He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. |
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