OCTOBER 5TH, 1897

OCTOBER 5TH, 1897

So far as I understand John 5, I think that the clause “So hath he given to the Son to have life in himself” refers to the place which the Son has taken as Man. He takes as given what was really proper to Himself as a divine Person (see chapter 1:4). What I understand by it is, in Him was life outside of all the scene of death here, and that He could not be holden of it.