Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 21:4

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor trying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away .

Scarce any of the passages in this Verse, taken in the plain literal sense are applicable to any state of the Church in this life: for though in the thousand years, mentioned v.. 20. the state of the Church (as 'tis presumed) will be very happy comparatively to what [illegible: 1 span] was before, and free from its [illegible: 1 span] and Persecutions; yet I think none hath asserted that in that time no Members of it shall die, or be sick, or have any sorrow or pain. There must be a great allowance of Figures, if we will apply this to any State of the Militant Church; but all will be literally true as to the Church in Heaven.

Marginal references: Chap. 7.17.; 1 Cor. 15.26, 54.; Isa. 35.10.