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I. THINGS WHICH MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO SAY THIS.

1. The enjoyment of life.

2. Attachment to friends.

3. The anticipated pain of dissolution.

4. Uncertainty about the future.

II. THINGS WHICH MAKE IT EASY, AT LEAST COMPARATIVELY, TO SAY THIS.

1. The sad experience of life's ills.

2. The consciousness of having finished one's life-work.

3. The pre-decease of Christian friends.

4. An ever-nearing and enlarging prospect of heaven's glory.

(T. Whitelaw, D. D.)

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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.