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.

ΚΑʹ. Ὡς δὲ ἅπαντα εἶχεν αὐτῇ κατὰ νοῦν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἐνέδει τῶν ποθουμένων, καὶ ἡ κυρία πλησίον, οὕτως ἤδη τῷ θανάτῳ συσκευάζεται καὶ τῇ ἐκδημίᾳ, καὶ πληροῖ τὸν περὶ ταῦτα νόμον διὰ τῆς κατακλίσεως. Ἐπισκήψασα δὲ καὶ ἀνδρὶ, καὶ τέκνοις, καὶ φίλοις, ὅσα εἰκὸς τὴν φίλανδρον, καὶ φιλότεκνον, καὶ φιλάδελφον, καὶ λαμπρῶς περὶ τῶν ἐκεῖθεν φιλοσοφήσασα, καὶ πανηγύρεως ἡμέραν ποιησαμένη τὴν τελευταίαν, κοιμᾶται, πλήρης μὲν οὐ τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον ἡμερῶν, ὅ τι μηδὲ συνηύχετο, ταύτας ἑαυτῇ πονηρὰς εἰδυῖα, καὶ τὰ πολλὰ μετὰ τοῦ χοὸς καὶ τῆς πλάνης, τῶν δὲ κατὰ Θεὸν καὶ λίαν πλήρης, ὡς οὐκ οἶδ' εἴ τις ῥᾳδίως τῶν ἐν πλουσίᾳ τῇ πολιᾷ καταλυσάντων, καὶ πολλὰς ἐτῶν περιόδους ἀριθμησάντων. Οὕτως ἐκείνη λύεται, ἢ προσλαμβάνεται, κρεῖσσον εἰπεῖν, ἢ ἀφίπταται, ἢ μετοικίζεται, ἢ μικρὸν προαποδημεῖ τοῦ σώματος.