6For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. …
And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. …
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Observe, I. How awfully this charge is introduced (2Ti. 4:1): I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. Observe, The best of men have need to be awed into the discharge of their duty. The work of a minister is not an indifferent thing, but absolutely necessary. Woe be to him if he preach not the gospel, 1Cor. 9:16.…
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