Teks -- 2 Timothy 4:6 (NET)

4:6 For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.

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Robertson: 2Ti 4:6 - I am already being offered

I am already being offered ( ēdē spendomai ).

Present (progressive) passive indicative of spendō , old verb, to pour out a libation or drink offering. In N.T. only here and Phi 2:17. "What was then a possibility is now a certainty"(Parry). The sacrifice of Paul’ s life-blood has begun.

Robertson: 2Ti 4:6 - Of my departure

Of my departure ( tēs analuseōs mou ).

Our very word "analysis."Old word from analuō , to loosen up or back, to unloose. Only here in N.T., though analusai for death is used by Paul in Phi 1:23 which see for the metaphor.

Robertson: 2Ti 4:6 - Is come

Is come ( ephestēken ).

Perfect active indicative of ephistēmi (intransitive use). See note on 1Th 5:3; Luk 21:34. The hour has struck. The time has come.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:6 - For I am now ready to be offered

For I am now ready to be offered ( ἐγὼ γὰρ ἤδη σπένδομαι )

I , emphatic contrast with σὺ thou , 2Ti 4:5. Already . What he is now suffering is the beginning of the end. Σπένδεσθαι to be poured out as a libation , only here and Phi 2:17 (note). In the active voice quite often in lxx.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:6 - Departure

Departure ( ἀναλύσεως )

N.T.o . o lxx. Comp. ἀναλῦσαι to depart , Phi 1:23. The figure is explained by some of loosing a ship from its moorings; by others of breaking camp. In Philippians the latter is the more probable explanation, because Paul's situation in the custody of the Praetorians at Rome would naturally suggest a military metaphor, and because he is habitually sparing of nautical metaphors. Comp. 2Co 5:1, and Clement of Rome, ad Corinth . xliv: " Blessed are the presbyters who have gone before, seeing that their departure (ἀνάλυσιν ) was fruitful and ripe."

Wesley: 2Ti 4:6 - The time of my departure is at hand

So undoubtedly God had shown him.

Wesley: 2Ti 4:6 - I am ready to be offered up

Literally, to be poured out, as the wine and oil were on the ancient sacrifices.

JFB: 2Ti 4:6 - 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).

JFB: 2Ti 4:6 - my departure

Literally, "loosing anchor" (see on Phi 1:23). Dissolution.

Clarke: 2Ti 4:6 - For I am now ready to be offered

For I am now ready to be offered - Ηδη σπενδομαι· I am already poured out as a libation. See the note on Phi 2:17. He considers himself as on the eve of being sacrificed, and looks upon his blood as the libation which was poured on the sacrificial offering. He could not have spoken thus positively had not the sentence of death been already passed upon him.

Calvin: 2Ti 4:6 - For I am now offered as a sacrifice // And the time of my dissolution is at hand // The time of dissolution

6.For I am now offered as a sacrifice He assigns the reason for the solemn protestation which he employed. As if he had said, “So long as I lived, I stretched out my hand to thee; my constant exhortations were not withheld from thee; thou hast been much aided by my advices, and much confirmed by my example; the time is now come, that thou shouldst be thine own teacher and exhorter, and shouldst begin to swim without support: beware lest any change in thee be observed at my death.”

And the time of my dissolution is at hand ¹⁹⁷ We must attend to the modes of expression by which he denotes his death. By the word dissolution he means that we do not altogether perish when we die; because it is only a separation of the soul from the body. Hence we infer, that death is nothing else than a departure of the soul from the body — a definition which contains a testimony of the immortality of the soul.

“Sacrifice” was a term peculiarly applicable to the death of Paul, which was inflicted on him for maintaining the truth of Christ; for, although all believers, both by their obedient life and by their death, are victims or offerings acceptable to God, yet martyrs are sacrificed in a more excellent manner, by shedding their blood for the name of Christ. Besides, the wordσπένδεσθαι which Paul here employs, does not denote every kind of sacrifice, but that which serves for ratifying covenants. Accordingly, in this passage, he means the same thing which he states more clearly when he says,

“But if I am offered on the sacrifice of your faith, I rejoice.” (Phi 2:17.)

For there he means that the faith of the Philippians was ratified by his death, in precisely the same manner that covenants were ratified in ancient times by sacrifices of slain beasts; not that the certainty of our faith is founded, strictly speaking, on the steadfastness of the martyrs, but because it tends greatly to confirm us. Paul has here adorned his death by a magnificent commendation, when he called it the ratification of his doctrine, that believers, instead of sinking into despondency — as frequently happens — might be more encouraged by it to persevere.

The time of dissolution This mode of expression is also worthy of notice, because he beautifully lessens the excessive dread of death by pointing out its effect and its nature. How comes it that men are so greatly dismayed at any mention of death, but because they think that they perish utterly when they die? On the contrary, Paul, by calling it “Dissolution,” affirms that man does not perish, but teaches that the soul is merely separated from the body. It is with the same object that he fearlessly declares that “the time is at hand,” which he could not have done unless he had despised death; for although this is a natural feeling, which can never be entirely taken away, that man dreads and shrinks from death, yet that terror must be vanquished by faith, that it may not prevent us from departing form this world in an obedient manner, whenever God shall call us.

TSK: 2Ti 4:6 - I am // and

I am : Phi 2:17

and : Gen 48:21, Gen 50:24; Num 27:12-17; Deu 31:14; Jos 23:14; Phi 1:23; 2Pe 1:14, 2Pe 1:15

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Poole: 2Ti 4:6 - For I am now ready to be offered // Answer

For I am now ready to be offeredspendomai , the word properly signifieth to be offered as a drink-offering, which was offered by being poured out. Some say that spendomai is only used to signify such offerings whereby some covenant was confirmed; so as it not only signifieth that Paul was sensible that he should die a violent death, but that his death should be an establishment and confirmation of the doctrine of the gospel which he had preached, that he should be offered upon the sacrifice and service of their faith, as he speaketh, Phi 2:17 , where the same word is used. A learned author thinks it is there used in a little different sense, there as an accession to the sacrifice, here as a preparation to it, they being wont to prepare their sacrifice by pouring wine upon it; which possibly guided our translators to translate it here, I am ready to be offered. And the time of my departure is at hand; analusewv we translate it departure, it properly signifieth resolution, because in death we are resolved into dust, from whence we are. If any ask how Paul knew that the time of his death was so near;

Answer: He might know it by revelation from God, or from his observation of Nero’ s temper, malice, or behaviour toward him.

Haydock: 2Ti 4:6 - I am even now ready to be sacrificed // The time of my dissolution

I am even now ready to be sacrificed. [5] Literally, to be immolated. See Philippians ii. 17. ---

The time of my dissolution (literally, resolution) is at hand. This makes many judge that this letter was written during his last imprisonment; but the sense perhaps may be, that being old and worn out with labours, he could not live long. (Witham)

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[BIBLIOGRAPHY]

Jam delibor, Greek: ede spendomai. See St. John Chrysostom ( Greek: om. th. p. 372) that Greek: sponde, libamen, is more than Greek: thusia, hostia.

Gill: 2Ti 4:6 - For I am now ready to be offered // and the time of my departure is at hand

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 at the bottom of the altar; which is expressive of martyrdom, and shows that the apostle knew what death he should die; for which he was habitually ready; and this sacrifice of himself was not to atone for sin, his own, or others; Christ's death was the only sacrifice for sin, and that is a complete one, and needs no other to be added to it; but this was in the cause of Christ, and for the confirmation of the Gospel, and the faith of the saints in it: so covenants have been confirmed by libations or drink offerings of wine; and this was an offering acceptable unto God, in whose sight the death of his saints is precious; as the wine in the drink offering is said to cheer God, that is, to be acceptable to him:

and the time of my departure is at hand; death is not an annihilation of man, neither of his body, nor of his soul; the one at death returns to dust, and the other to God that gave it; death is a dissolution of soul and body, or a dissolving of the union that is between them, and a resolution of the body into its first principles; hence the Syriac version renders it, "the time in which I shall be dissolved"; and the Vulgate Latin version, "the time of my resolution". Death analyzes men, and reduces them to their first original earth; it is a removing of persons from one place and state to another; from an house of clay, from this earthly house of our tabernacle, to an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, to everlasting habitations, and mansions in Christ's Father's house. This phrase, "a departure", is an easy representation of death, and supposes an existence after it; See Gill on Phi 1:23. Now there is a "time" for this; saints are not to continue here always; this is a state of pilgrimage, and a time of sojourning, and which is fixed and settled; the time for going out of this world, as well as for coming into it, is determined by God, beyond which there is no passing; the number of men's days, months, and years, is with him; and the apostle knew partly from his age, and partly from his situation, being in bonds at Rome, and it may be by divine revelation, that his time of removing out of this world was very near; and which he mentions, to stir up Timothy to diligence, since he would not have him long with him, to give him counsel and advice, to admonish him, or set him an example.