“Umbræ enim transitus est tempus nostrum, et non est reversio finis nostri : quoniam consignata est, et nemo revertitur.”
“For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.”
“For our alloted time is the passing of a shadow, And our end retreats not; Because it is fast sealed, and none turns it back.”
Sealed, like one in the tomb, Matthew xxvii. 66. The epicureans were well convinced of the fragility of our nature: but they drew false inferences from it, pretending that we should enjoy ourselves now, as there will be no future life. This they ought to have proved. (Calmet)