John 8:51
Douay-Rheims
Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.
Augustine of Hippo
(Tr. xliii. 10, 11) See is put for experience. But since, about to die Himself, He spoke with those about to die, what means this, If a man keep My saying, he shall never see death? What, but that He saw another death from which He came to free us, death eternal, the death of the damned, which is shared with the devil and his angels! That is the true death: the other is a passage only.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:48-51
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.