“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;”
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge both the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom — Paul's charge (diamarturomai) invokes dual witness: God and Christ (the future judge of living and dead), grounding Timothy's subsequent obligation in eschatological reality. Christ's parousia (appearing) and basileia (kingdom) establish ultimate accountability.
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