...Lord says expressly concerning his own persoa and death : " Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down' my life that I may take it again : no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again : this commandment...

...to enable Him to cry aloud, in articulate words ; but not in the shriek of pain. He Himself said, " I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No man taketh it from me; but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.1"' IT is ALSO...

...if he had been so disposed. He died voluntarily, beyond a doubt. " I lay down my life," said he, " that I may take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." § This was...

...it. But the same truth is involved in this as in what He Himself says in John: — I lay down My soul that I may take it again ; no man taketh It from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This commandment...

...omnipotent, and it is said of him, when he was offered up, that he desired it. And he says himself: " I lay down my life, that I may take it again ; no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." A man cannot,...

...died by His own power, and not of necessity. He himself announces this power in the Gospel, saying, ހ 0 񏌀 ؒ S . ŵ I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.""' Thus the...

...must correspond to the free will of Christ, the man, ("For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord" [John 10:17]) 's tne freedom of the man who...

...to God"). The sublimation of Isaac's sacrifice in self-sacrifice is also at work in John 10:17-18: "I lay down my life that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord." 17. Burton L. Visotzky, Reading the Book:...

...oneness He and the Father have. As He said to His accusers, "Therefore My Father loves me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to...

...but who "died for mortals" and therefore was the only one 80 The Son of Man who could say of himself: "I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me; I lay it down of my own accord."51 Augustine's most influential insight into...