" According to Bengel (born 1687), the Christian has not so much to wait for death as for the appearance of Jesus Christ, and the most important business for every man is to come from a state of sin into a state of grace, and afterward not to look for death, but for the Lord. Death had originally no place in the economy of God and was only introduced afterward.
" Bengel did not think highly of the artificial mode of dying, and followed his own ideas thereon. He would not die with spiritual pomp; but in a common way, and was employed to the last with his proof-sheets. It was as if he was called out of his room during the hours of work."