For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
What does this departure mean but the dissolution and torpor of the body, while the soul for its part is turned toward its rest and made free, if it be faithful, “to be with Christ”? On the Benefit of Death