For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
      First, The inducement to it: The Father loveth the Son; he declared, This is my beloved Son. He had not only a good will to the undertaking, but an infinite complacency in the undertaker. Christ was now hated of men, one whom the nation abhorred (Isaiah 49:7); but he comforted himself with this, that his Father loved him.