2 Timothy 4:6-8 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.… Rev. J. Newton, who lived to a good old age, used to tell his friends in his latter days, "I am like a parcel packed up and directed, only waiting for the carrier to take me to my destination." When Dr. Wardlaw was visited by Norman McLeod in his dying hour, and was asked by him if he could not wish, like Enoch, to escape the pains of death, "No," he said, most touchingly, "I would enter heaven by the way that Jesus went." "I die no more," were the exultant words of old Dr. Redford, as he fell down in death. The Rev. Dr. Punshon, working and suffering, fulfilled a sort of double life until his Divine Master called him home. Then, in deeply reverent tones, looking upward, he said, with a firm voice, "Christ is to me a bright reality. Jesus! Jesus!" What a moment for his beloved wife when she saw a smile of rapture on his face, then marked him bow his weary head, and enter into the rest eternal! Parallel Verses KJV: For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.WEB: For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. |
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