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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Timothy 4:6 - 4:6
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Greek, “For I am already being offered”; literally, as a libation; appropriate to the shedding of his blood. Every sacrifice began with an initiatory libation on the victim’s head (compare Note, see on Phi 2:17). A motive to stimulate Timothy to faithfulness - the departure and final blessedness of Paul; it is the end that crowns the work [Bengel]. As the time of his departure was indicated to Peter, so to Paul (2Pe 1:14).
my departure - literally, “loosing anchor” (see on Phi 1:23). Dissolution.