Mar 23, 2016
What makes death the Lord’s enemy, and fearful for us, is that it separates lovers. Were my death simply my affair, the old maxim might hold, that since my death will never be part of my experience I have no need to fear it. But death will take my loves from me and me from them, and that is the final quite objective horror, for it decrees the present emptiness of all human worth, constituted as it is by love. Having no more being would be no evil were being not mutual.
R. Jenson. Systematic Theo., Vol.2 (ebook), 461.