21. And now when she had all things to her mind,
and nothing was lacking of her desires, and the appointed time drew
nigh, being thus prepared for death and departure, she fulfilled the
law which prevails in such matters, and took to her bed. After
many injunctions to her husband, her children, and her friends, as was
to be expected from one who was full of conjugal, maternal, and
brotherly love, and after making her last day a day of solemn festival
with brilliant discourse upon the things above, she fell asleep, full
not of the days of man, for which she had no desire, knowing them to be
evil for her, and mainly occupied with our dust and wanderings, but
more exceedingly full of the days of God, than I imagine any one even
of those who have departed in a wealth of hoary hairs, and have
numbered many terms of years. Thus she was set free, or, it is
better to say, taken to God, or flew away, or changed her abode, or
anticipated by a little the departure of her body.