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A Life Poured Out
Commentators explain that Paul's phrase "I am already being offered" uses the metaphor of a drink offering in ancient sacrifices. Just as wine was poured out as a final act of worship, Paul saw his impending martyrdom not as a tragedy, but as the final, decisive act of his devotion to God. His life was being completely poured out in service to Christ.
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2 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Timothy 4:6
18th Century
Theologian
For I am now ready to be offered. This conviction of the apostle that he was about to die is urged as a reason why Timothy should be dilig…
AT Robertson
On 2 Timothy 4:6
I am already being offered (ηδη σπενδομα). Present (progressive) passive indicative of σπενδω, old verb, to pour out a libation or…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Timothy 4:6
19th Century
Bishop
For I am now ready to be offered.—What, in the Philippian Epistle (Philippians 2:17), was alluded to as a con…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Timothy 4:5–6
19th Century
Preacher
How complacently he talks about it! It is only a departure, though Caesar's sword might strike his head from his body. And truly death to the belie…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Timothy 4:6
In Php 2:17 Paul wrote, “But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice”; here he says, “For I am already being poured ou…
John Calvin
On 2 Timothy 4:6
16th Century
Theologian
For I am now offered as a sacrifice. He assigns the reason for the solemn protestation which he employed. As if he had said, “As long as I…
John Gill
On 2 Timothy 4:6
17th Century
Pastor
For I am now ready to be offered
Or poured out, as a libation, or a drink offering; or as the blood was poured out a…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Timothy 4:6–8
17th Century
Minister
The blood of the martyrs, though not a sacrifice of atonement, was still a sacrifice of acknowledgment of the grace of God and his truth.
To…