SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:6
porque a mí ya me sacrifican, y el tiempo de mi desatamiento est cercano.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 4:6
Verse 6. For I am now ready to be offered] hoh apendomai? I am already poured out as a libation. See the note on Phil. ii. 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. For I am now ready to be offered , etc.] 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 Philippians 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-8 - The blood of the martyrs, though not a sacrifice of atonement, yet wa a sacrifice of acknowledgment to the grace of God and his truth. Deat to a good man, is his release from the imprisonment of this world, an his departure to the enjoyments of another world. As a Christian, and minister, Paul had kept the faith, kept the doctrines of the gospel What comfort will it afford, to be able to speak in this manner towar the end of our days! The crown of believers is a crown of righteousness, purchased by the righteousness of Christ. Believers have it not at present, yet it is sure, for it is laid up for them. The believer, amidst poverty, pain, sickness, and the agonies of death, ma rejoice; but if the duties of a man's place and station are neglected his evidence of interest in Christ will be darkened, and uncertaint and distress may be expected to cloud and harass his last hours.
Greek Textus Receptus
εγω 1473 γαρ 1063 ηδη 2235 σπενδομαι 4689 5743 και 2532 ο 3588 καιρος 2540 της 3588 εμης 1699 αναλυσεως 359 εφεστηκεν 2186 5758
Vincent's NT Word Studies
6. For I am now ready to be offered (egw gar hdh spendomai). I, emphatic contrast with su thou, verse 5. Already. What he is now suffering is the beginning of the end. Spendesqai to be poured out as a libation, only here and Philip. ii. 17 (note). In the active voice quite often in LXX.
Departure (analusewv). N.T.o . o LXX. Comp. ajnalusai to depart, Philippians. i. 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. 2 Corinthians v. 1, and Clement of Rome, ad Corinth. xliv. "Blessed are the presbyters who have gone before, seeing that their departure (analusin) was fruitful and ripe."
Robertson's NT Word Studies
4:6 {I am already being offered} (ede spendomai). Present (progressive) passive indicative of spendw, old verb, to pour out a libation or drink offering. In N.T. only here and #Php 2:17. "What was qen a possibility is now a certainty" (Parry). The sacrifice of Paul's life-blood has begun. {Of my departure} (tes analusews mou). Our very word "analysis." Old word from analuw, to loosen up or back, to unloose. Only here in N.T., though analusai for death is used by Paul in #Php 1:23 which see for the metaphor. {Is come} (efesteken). Perfect active indicative of efistemi (intransitive use). See #1Th 5:3; Lu 21:34. The hour has struck. The time has come.
