...sinking under the load. As soon as he saw me, he said, ' O son, you are welcome to a dying father; I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand.' A little after midnight, my mother holding his hands as he sat in bed, and I holding the...

...sinking under the load. As soon as he saw me, he said, ' O son, you are welcome to a dying father; I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand.'- A little after midnight, my mother holding his hands as he sat in bed, and I holding the...

...was done, and he had nearly completed his cycle, he could say with all humility and hopefulness — " I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there...

...his words, which deepens as we read on, as if he felt that he was writing his last farewell. " I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have kept the faith, I have finished my course. Henceforth...

...other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the g^.J fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith ; '.,enceforth...

...debt, who, in the first instance, had received that which was no debt, but grace : For, saith he, / am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, 1 have finished my course, I have kept the faith ; henceforth...

...him, and 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...

...short 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...

...trial seems like 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...

...? 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...