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does not prove, the proper Divinity of Christ. It is the favourite designation in this Gospel. The love of the Father for the Son is the reason for His giving to Him the Spirit: nay, it accounts for His committing all things to His hand; πάντα δέδωκεν ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, that is, to possess andtorule. ‘‘ Facit hic amor, quo Filium amplexus nos quoque in eo amplectitur, ut per illius manum nobis bona sua omnia communicet’””—Calvin. But Calvin does not make the mistake of supposing that the words signify “ by means of His hand”; cf. Beza. God has made Christ His plenipotentiary for this world and has done so because of His love. It was a boon then to Christ to come into this world and win it to Him- self. There is no history, movement, or life of God so glorious as the history of God incarnate.—Ver. 36. 6 πιστεύων εν ἐπ αὐτόν. Christ has been repre- sented as Sovereign, commissioned with supreme powers, especially for the pur- pose of saving men and restoring them to God. Hence ‘‘he that believeth on the Son hath eternal life”. He who through the Son finds and accepts the Father has life in this very vision and fellowship of the Supreme; cf. xvii. 3. But “he that refuses to be persuaded,” lit. “he that disobeyeth”. Beza points out that in N.T. there is a twofold ἀπείθεια, one of the intellect, dissenting from truth presented, as here and in Acts xiv. 2; the other of the will and life, see Rom. xi. 30. But will enters into the former as well as the latter. 4 ὀργὴ τοῦ θεοῦ, the wrath of God denotes ‘the fixed and necessary hostility of the Divine nature to sin’’; what appears in a righteous man as indignation; and also the manifestation of that hostility in acts of retributive justice. This is the only place in the Gospel where it occurs ; but in Rev. vi. 16, we have ‘‘the wrath of the Lamb’’; also xvi. το, ‘ the wine ot the fury of His wrath”; also xiv. το, xi. 18, xix. 15. In Paul ‘the coming wrath” is frequently alluded to; as also ‘the day of wrath,” “the children” or “vessels”? of wrath. On the refuser of Christ the wrath of God, instead of removing from him, abides, μένει; not, as Theophylact reads, μενεῖ, ‘will abide”’.