But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.