John of Damascus, on 2Tim 4:1

“I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom:”

“After giving comfort and encouragement for everyone, he brings up great things at the close of his writing. Now reasonably he brings up such great things, because he was destressed about what he was going to say to the disciple about his own death. So the Scriptures say, from which he said, that "From childhood you have known the Scriptures. (2 Tim 3:15)"”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.