John Trapp on 2 Corinthians 5:8

Verſe 8. And willing rather] Death is not to be deſired as a puniſhment of ſin, but as a period of ſin: not as a poſtern gate to let out our temporall, but as a ſtreet door to let in eternall life.

To be preſent with the Lord] This Bernard calleth Repatriaſſe. Plotinus the Philoſopher could ſay when he died, Bern, de morte. That which is divine in me I carry back, [non-Latin text not transcribed],Syneſ. ep 139. to the Originall divine, that is, to God. But whether this man beleeved himſelf or not, I greatly doubt.