For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Penn frames death not as annihilation but as transition: a “turning” from the temporal order into eternity. The metaphor suggests continuity of the self—one is simply reoriented, as a page is turned or a body is gently shifted—so the fear attached to death is misplaced. Read in a Quaker key, the line emphasizes inward spiritual reality over outward circumstance: time-bound life is provisional, while eternity is the fuller dimension in which the soul ultimately abides. The phrasing also carries pastoral force, offering consolation by recasting death as passage rather than loss, and by implying that meaning and moral consequence extend beyond the limits of earthly time.