# “The unspeakable and incomparable gift of the Father” by John Murray

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“If the Father did not spare His own Son but delivered Him up to the agony and shame
of Calvary, how could He possibly fail to bring to fruition the end contemplated
in such sacrifice.

The greatest gift of the Father, the most precious donation given to us, was not
things. It was not calling, nor justification, nor even glorification.

It is not even the security with which the apostle concludes his peroration (Rom.
8:39). These are favours dispensed in the fulfilment of God’s gracious design.

But the unspeakable and incomparable gift is the giving up of His own Son. So great
is that gift, so marvellous are its implications, so far-reaching its consequences
that all graces of lesser proportion are certain of free bestowment.

Whether the word ‘also’ is tied to ‘with Him’ or to the term ‘freely give’, the 
significance of ‘with Him’ must be appreciated. Christ is represented as given to
us—the giving up for us is to be construed as a gift to us.

Since He is the supreme expression and embodiment of free gift and since His being
given over by the Father is the supreme demonstration of the Father’s love, every
other grace must follow upon and with the possession of Christ.”

–John Murray, [_The Epistle to the Romans_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802875882?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
vol. 1; The New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament; Grand Rapids,
MI; Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1968), 326.

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