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John Calvin (rightly) says no:

Yet we do not suggest that God was ever inimical or angry toward him.

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How could he be angry toward his beloved Son, “in whom his heart reposed” [cf. Matthew 3:17]?

How could Christ by his intercession appease the Father toward others, if he were himself hateful to God?

This is what we are saying: he bore the weight of divine severity, since he was “stricken and afflicted” [cf. Isaiah 53:5] by God’s hand, and experienced all the signs of a wrathful and avenging God.

—Institutes, II.xvi.11

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