If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
Ver. 32. And shall straightway] Thus for the "joy that was set before him, he endured the cross, despising, the shame, as being shortly to sit down at the right hand of the throne of God,"Hebrews 12:2. Look we on him, and do likewise. There were in Greece certain fields called Palaestrae, where young men exercised themselves in wrestling. In these were set up statues of some valiant champions, that the young wrestlers might fix their eyes upon them, and so be encouraged. Can we choose a better champion than Christ to eye and imitate, should we be called to resist unto blood, striving against sin? He did not only sanguinem suffundere, sed effundere, to pour in the blood but poured it out. And how did he support himself under the cross, but by the forethought of the crown?