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For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
I am already being offered (ηδη σπενδομα). Present (progressive) passive indicative of σπενδω, old verb, to pour out a libation or…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle advised Timothy to be persistent in preaching, for the benefit of his audience as well as for Timothy himself. Here, he pre…
