We are not to conclude from this verse that the love of the Father is the cause of the communication of the Divine nature to the Son, as if the Son proceeded from the Father through love, and therefore through the Will. The common teaching of theologians is that the Son proceeds not through the Divine will, but through the Divine intellect. See Perr. De. Trin., § 401. Hence the meaning is not, that the Father loves the Son, and _therefore_ communicates His Divine nature to Him. Toletus, however, thinks that this form of expression is purposely used here by Christ to show men that the Father shares His nature and power with the Son, since among men, those who love share their goods with each other.(49) As already indicated, the future, “will show,” is used in this verse in reference to the _manifestation_ in time of that power which was given from eternity. *That you may wonder.* Some take “that” (ἵνα) here as introducing a consequence; others, and rightly, in its usual sense as introducing a purpose. The purpose of God was that they might wonder and believe. 21. Sicut enim Pater suscitat 21. For as the Father raiseth mortuos, et vivificat: sic et up the dead, and giveth life: Filius, quos vult, vivificat. so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. 21. The connection here shows that the raising of the dead is one of the “greater works” just referred to, as is also the judgment by Christ mentioned in the next verse. But who are the dead, and what is the resurrection of which there is question? (_a_) Those who were _corporally_ dead like Lazarus, and were raised by Christ, to the wonder of the Jews.(50) For—(1) This view suits the context. Christ had cured a paralytic; He now promises greater miracles; hitherto he had only healed bodies that were sick; now He would raise to life bodies that were dead. (2) In verse 28 there is certainly question of a corporal resurrection; therefore also here. (3) This raising of the dead was to excite the wonder of the Jews; therefore there must be question of the raising of the body, since a spiritual resurrection could not be known, and hence could not be a matter of wonder. (_b_) Those _spiritually_ dead, who were to be raised through the preaching of Christ and His Apostles from the death of sin to the life of grace. For—(1) It is more probable that there is question of spiritual death and resurrection in verse 24; therefore also in verse 21. (2) The words “And now is” of verse 25 point to a resurrection then present, therefore to a _spiritual_. (3) This view suits the context. The spiritual resurrection brought about by Christ, though in itself invisible, produced in the world effects _more wonderful_ than the curing of the paralytic, and it is as a proof that Christ can raise those spiritually dead, that He refers in verse 28 to the fact that He will raise those corporally dead.