For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain] Or, Christ is to me life, in and death gain] In Greek, as sometimes also in Latine, a Verb in the Infinitive mood is put for a Noun, as nostrum hoc vivere triste, for, nostra haec vita trisis; and, scire tuum nihil est, for, scientia tua nihil est; so here, mihi vivere est Christus, for, mihi vita est Christus: 〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉. est Christus, for, mihi vita est Christus:〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉. And in this sense Nysson understandeth the phrase in Epitaph. Basill 〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which the learned Interpreter thus rendereth, Christus vita utrique erat, Christ was life to them both, and death a like adavantage. The meaning is evidently this, Christ is my life here by grace, and hereafter by glory; he is both the Author and the end of my life; I live for him, I live to him, I live in him, I live by him, and if I be put to death, that shall no way endamage me, but rather bring me great advantage, in regard that thereby I shall exchange and gain heaven for earth, and a happy eternall life, for this miserable and mortall. Or, all the gian I aym at in life or death, is Christ, namely, to glorifie him by my service. Acts 20:24. & Acts 21:13.