You're on to something very good there -- the "so" has traditionally been interpreted as a "thus" (sic), not a "so much." Christ being given for the world (i.e., Jews and Gentiles) is being compared to the bronze serpent being given for the Jews to deliver them.

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Paul Korte
OPC
Flint, MI

They who perceive in themselves discoveries of the divine goodness, so full and absolutely perfect, and who make them the subject of earnest meditation, will never embrace new doctrines, by which the very grace they feel so powerfully in themselves is thrown into the shade. --John Calvin

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