This is the object of Christ's manifestation and reign. This glorification of the Son, which is now imminent, is in accordance with the purpose of the Father in giving the Son power over men: καθὼς ἔδωκας αὐτῷ ἐξουσίαν … αἰώνιον. Only by His being glorified could the Son give this eternal life, and so fulfil the commission with which He was entrusted ἐξουσίαν ἔδωκας is explained in John 12:27 and the verses preceding: Matthew 11:27; Hebrews 1:2. πάσης σαρκὸς represents כָּל־בָשָׂר, Genesis 6:12; Isaiah 40:6, etc., and denotes the human race as possessed of a frail, terrestrial existence, lacking ζωὴν αἰώνιον. ἵνα πᾶν ὃ δέδωκας αὐτῷ, the neuter, as in John 6:39, resolved into the individuals in αὐτοῖς; and on the nominative absolute, see Buttmann's N.T. Gram., 379; and Kypke in loc.

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