2 Timothy 4:6

2 Timothy 4:6. For I am ready to be offered. There is a pathetic tenderness in the reason thus given. ‘Do thy work thoroughly, for mine is all but over.' The Greek is, however, even more emphatic, ‘ I am being offered. My life is being poured out as a libation.' That which in Philippians 2:17 was thought of as probable, had, after many chances and changes, come to be a reality.

The time of my departure, The Greek word is used here only in the New Testament, and was probably suggested by the way in which it was commonly applied to the ‘breaking up' or ‘dispersion' of those who had been gathered together for a sacrifice or ft libation.