Note 32 — MESSIAH,
Reading edition
Isaiah xxv. 8.—Pope. "He will swallow up death in victory."
The meaning of the original has been missed by Pope. The promise was not that men should cease to die, which would be the ease if Death was "bound in adamantine chains," but that death should lose its terrors through "the life and immortality brought to light by the gospel," and be welcomed as the passport to a blissful eternity.