John Trapp on Hebrews 2:15

Verſe 15 And deliver them,] So that to thoſe that are in Chriſt, death is but the day-break of eternall brightneſſe: Not the puniſhment of ſin, but the period of ſin. It is but a ſturdy Porter, opening the door of eternity: a rougher paſſage to eternall pleaſure. What need they fear to paſſe the waters of J[illegible: 1 letter]rdan to take poſſeſſion of the land, that have the Ark of Gods Covenant in their eye? Tollitur mors, non ne ſit, ſed ne obſit. As Chriſt took away, not ſin, but the guilt of it, ſo neither death, but the ſting of i[illegible: 1 letter].

Who through fear of death] That King of terrours, as Job calleth death: that terrible of ad terribles, as Aristotle. Nature will have a bout with the beſt when they come to die. But I wonder (ſaith a grave Divine) how the ſouls of wicked men go not out of their bodies, as the devils did out of the daemoniacks, rending, raging, tearing, ſoming. I wonder how any can die in their wits, that die not in the ſaith of Jeſus Chriſt. Appius Cl[illegible: 1 letter]ndius loyed not the Greek Zeta, becauſe when it is pronounced, it repreſenteth the gnaſhing teeth of a dying man. Sigiſmund the Emperour being ready to die, commanded his ſervants not to name death in his hearing, &c.