Jesus, the Name Which Is Above Every Name.

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“LET this mind be in you, which was also in CHRIST JESUS: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at THE NAME OF JESUS every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is Lord, to the glory of God the Father,”
In the above passage our Lord is presented both as the humbled, and as the exalted One. In the former case, in Order to intimate that the Man of sorrows, the lowly, Jesus of Nazareth, was at the same time the anointed of God, the name of Christ is put first" Christ Jesus," we read. In the other case it is "Jesus Christ," the name of Jesus taking the precedence, both as glancing back to the past, to His days of humiliation and sorrow on earth, and also as showing that that which according to man is a mere human appellation, is with God the name above all names, and that hereafter, in the days of the kingdom, the name of Jesus, transfigured as it were, and bright with a halo of glory; wilt* be that which will fill all heaven and earth with ceaseless wonder and worship.