Gentiles, was (unknown to them), “to do whatsoever God had determined before to be done” (4:28). Jesus himself testifies that he had received commandment from the Father to lay down his life (John 10:18). Paul, alluding to this feature of the case, says that he (Jesus) was “obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Phil. 2:8). And he makes the act the Father’s act in saying, “He that spared not his own Son, but DELIVERED HIM UP FOR US ALL, how shall he not also with him freely give us all