Eternal life is expressly predicated on the eternal Word, the Son of God, before He came into the world, but it never became the known portion of the believer till Christ was manifested.
It was here in the world of sin, sorrow and misery-here where the first man utterly failed unto death-that the Second Man displayed life eternal, obeying unto death, and by His death defeated Satan and found an everlasting redemption for all that believe. And those who believe have life eternal in Him that they might live now of His life, not of their own fallen life. The manifestation of the life is precisely in this world and nowhere else. [23]