Thanks Tax-chick! And bravo for the alacrity! And the version of this story I originally read had it “shatterer of worlds”. :’)
I don’t know a bit about the original language, but the possible consonance of “death” and “time” gives an English-speaker food for thought, especially with what we sort-of know about the curiousities of time in the sub-atomic sphere.
In “The Hunt for Red October,” Captain Ramius mentioned Oppenheimer’s use of the line.