For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
х Eedee (G2235) spendomai (G4689)] 'For I am already being made a libation:' appropriate to the shedding of his blood. Every sacrifice had an initiatory libation on the victim's head (note, cf. Philippians 2:17): answering to Paul's present sufferings. A motive to stimulate Timothy to faithfulness-the imminent departure of Paul: it is the end that crowns the work (Bengel). As the time was indicated to Peter, so to Paul (2 Peter 1:14).
My departure, х analuseoos (G359)] - 'loosing anchor' (note, Philippians 1:23). Dissolution.