Verse 36
36. Believeth on the Son Accepts him as God incarnate.
Hath everlasting life It is already within him, the gift of the Son.
Shall not see life A life which is over and above the earthly life he now sees, and which is the gift of the Son conditioned on faith.
Wrath The reverse of that eternal life.
Abideth on him It is now upon him, and it is permanent upon him. Though he has now a mortal life, he has not the Son-given, immortal, celestial life; but is spiritually, and so permanently and eternally, dead, unless he obtain the higher life by faith. Hence: 1. Eternal life is the gift of Christ, and is implanted in principle and germ within the believer, in and over this temporal life. 2. Heavenly life is the perpetuity and perfection of the life now within the soul implanted by Christ. 3. Eternal death, the wrath of God, is the perpetuity of the present spiritual death. 4. Eternal life is for him alone who believeth.
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