Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:51

51 Verily verily I say unto you, If a man keep my saying▪ he shall never see death .

To see Death [illegible: 1 word] this Text, signifieth to die, but in an apparently differing sense from what it is taken in Luke 2.26. Where it is to be understood, of a Natural Death; of which it cannot be understood here, for the holiest men shall die Rom. 8.10 The body is dead, (that is in dying) because of Sin; or shall dye, because of Sin; it must therefore be understood of Death Eternal, and in that sense the Proposition is certainly true, That an holy man that keepeth the Sayings of Christ, shall not see Death; that is, shall have Eternal Life; which is no more than what we have often before met with, viz. the Promise of Life Eternal, to Faith and Holiness.

Marginal references: Chap. 5.24. and 11.26.