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John 17:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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John 17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

I think this verse is a solution of the problem about general redemption and particular redemption. Christ, by his death, has obtained power over all flesh. There is a universality about his redemption, but the object of it still was that he should give eternal life to "as many as thou hast given me." There is a specialty and peculiarity about the grand ultimate result and design of the death of our Lord. Let us believe both truths.

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