page_title: Death (personification)
section_title: In Christianity
hierarchical_section_title: Death (personification) / In Abrahamic religions / In Christianity
caption_attribution_description: English: This work is linked to Revelation 6:8 "The Lamb of God opens the seven seals of a book "written within and on the backside". After the opening of the fourth seal, Death rides into the world. He is the fourth knight of the apocalypse. Hell follows him."
context_page_description: Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul. Other beliefs hold that the Spectre of Death is only a psychopomp, serving to sever the last ties between the soul and the body, and to guide the deceased to the afterlife, without having any control over when or how the victim dies. Death is most often personified in male form, although in certain cultures Death is perceived as female.
context_section_description: Death is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse portrayed in the Book of Revelation, in Revelation 6:7–8 He is also known as the Pale Horseman whose name is Thanatos, the same as that of the ancient Greek personification of death, and the only one of the horsemen to be named.
  Paul addresses a personified death in 1 Corinthians 15:55: O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? In some versions, both arms of this verse are addressed to death.
caption: Gustave Doré Death on the Pale Horse (1865) – The fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
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