Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Timothy 4:1

1 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 .

Who seeth, and observeth what thou doest, and will one day call thee to account for thy discharge of thy Ministry.

And before the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom thou hast more reason to regard, not only because he is thy Master, and thou his Servant in a special sense, but because he is to be thy Judge also, for he shall be the Judge, as of those that are dead before his coming, so those also who shall be alive at his coming, 1 Cor. 15.52. 1 Thess. 4.15, 17.

When he shall appear the second time, and set up his Kingdom of Glory, delivering up his Mediatory Kingdom to his Father; I charge thee, as in the presence of God, and this Christ; or as thou hast a regard to God and to this Christ, and fearest the angry face of this Judge, or believest his second coming, or expectest a share in his Kingdom of Glory: A most severe obtestation, charge or adjuration. What is that duty which is usher'd in in so solemn a manner? It followeth.

Marginal references: 1 Tim. 6.13.