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Joh 3:15. Ἵνα, that) The goodness to us of the Son in Joh 3:15, and of the Father in Joh 3:16, is described in the same words. [The grace of the Son is what is most frequently noted, and the love of the Father (2Co 13:14, the benediction).-V. g.] Comp. ch. Joh 6:37, “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me: and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out;” notes, ch. Joh 10:28-29, “Neither shall any pluck them out of My hand:-none is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand:-ὁ πιστεύων, who believeth) Now Jesus begins a plainer style of speech. Faith, in the case of those needing to be saved, is what looking to the uplifted serpent was in the case of those needing to be healed.-εἰς αὐτόν, in Him) as lifted up. The cross [is] the ladder to heaven.-μὴ ἀπόληται, should not perish) by the poison of sin.-ζωὴν αἰώνιον, eternal life) by regeneration and faith. This mention of eternal life is made at the earliest time in each instance, in the discourses of the Saviour, and occurs in this passage first. He takes it for granted as very well known from the Old Testament: ch. Joh 5:39, “Search the Scriptures: for in them ye think ye have eternal life.” See Dan 12:2, “Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life,” etc.; Luk 10:25, [The lawyer’s question] “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”