"He that believeth...shall never die" is no empty phrase of Christian piety. It is rather a recognition of eternal process inherent in the experience of life itself. Despite the universal character of the fact, the experience itself is always private, always personal.
The shadow of death of which the Psalmist speaks is the thing that strikes the terror, the resounding echo of which leaves no ear unassailed. But death itself has no such power because the experience of life contains the fact of death.
There is a given element in life--it is the givenness of God. To know this thoroughly is to rob death of its terror and life of its fear.
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