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I have read somewhere of a company of young men who were jesting on sacred things. Suddenly a funeral passed by, and one of the company, pointing to it, said, "There goes the last affair of all." "Not so," answered a quiet bystander; "it is appointed to men once to die, and after this the judgment." It is a common mistake to speak of a man's death as the end of him; it is simply for him the beginning of eternity.

(H. J. Wilmot Buxton, M. A.)

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KJV: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

WEB: Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,