...thus from his sick bed he began to speak unto them: — "I am going the way of all flesh, I am now ready •." to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at " hand : Knowing, therefore, that I must put off this " tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ...

...time before ! They both knew "'olent death awaited them; but Paul could say without regret, " I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand." His whole life had been spent in preparing for that hour, and to him the future was so full...

...martyrdom ? Is it not something entirely different from the stedfast rejoicing willingness of a Paul : " I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand " ? from the blind headlong rapture of an Ignatius : " Suffer me to be the food of wild beasts...

...a dream, but as regards myself, the prospect of death is one of joy and not of sorrow; for I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand." " I rejoice," said the Moderator, " that you can still triumph over death." " I can embrace...

...gives .a most solemn charge to his son in the gospel, in which charge he declares to Timothy " I am now ready to be offered up, ..and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight," .&c. It may be supposed that Nero was greatly enraged at Paul...

...in all things, endure affliction, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. 6 For I am now hem out, at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith : 8 Henceforth...

...eternity is in his eye, and the great peace of God is in his heart, and it is thus he writes : " I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth...

...eternity is in his eye, and the great peace of God is in his heart, and it is thus he writes : " I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth...

...eternity is in his eye, and the great peace of God is in his heart, and it is thus he writes : " I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth...

...love our Lord Jesus Christ, let none of you, for my sake, desert his charge. For, as St. Paul says, ' I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand,- I see I must undergo many hardships and then quit this troublesome life. I know the subtlety...