Destroying Death

Qui destruxit quidem mortem, illuminavit autem vitam aeternitate per Evangelium, in quo positus sum ego praedicator, et apostolus, et magister gentium. Qua ratione salvum fecit populum suum Christus, ostendit dicens quia mortem destruxit, quae erat hominis inimica, ne ab inferis posset resurgere: tum demum vitam illuminavit aeternitate; ut resurgens a mortuis, jam mori non possit. Obscura enim vita est, quae tempore definitur, dum soporatur, dum ignorat, dum male versatur. Et quomodo illuminetur vita, ostendit; quia per Evangelium credentibus datur aeternitas, magistro gentium praedicante. Ambrosiaster, In Epistolam Beati Pauli Ad Timotheum Secundum, Caput I Source: Migne PL 17.487b

He who destroyed death and illuminated life with eternity through the Gospel in which I am established as a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the nations. 1 By saying that He destroyed death he shows how Christ saved His people from death which was the enemy of man, lest he should rise up from the infernal regions. Then at last He illuminated life with eternity, so that rising from the dead, it would die no more. Life is dark when it is limited by time, while it slumbers, while it is ignorant, while it turns to evil. And he shows how life is illuminated, because eternity is given through the Gospel to believers with the preaching of the teacher of the nations. Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The Second Letter of Saint Paul To Timothy, Chapter 1 1 2 Tim 1.11