The word
of prophecy passes again to Immanuel Himself. … For he means that He increased
and grew up into that which He had been from the beginning, and indicates the
return to the glory which He had by nature. This, if we understand it
correctly, is (we should say) just “restored” to Him. For as the only begotten
Word of God, being God of God, emptied Himself, according to the Scriptures,
humbling Himself of His own will to that which He was not before, and took unto
Himself this vile flesh, and appeared in the “form of a servant,” and “became
obedient to God the Father, even unto death,” so hereafter He is said to be
“highly exalted;” and … He “receives the name which is above every name,”
according to the word of the blessed Paul.
But the
matter, in truth, was not a “giving,” as for the first time, of what He had not
by nature; far otherwise. But rather we must understand a return and
restoration to that which existed in Him at the beginning, essentially and
inseparably. And it is for this reason that, when He had assumed, by divine
arrangement, the lowly estate of humanity, He said, “Father, glorify Me with
the glory which I had,” etc. For He who was co-existent with His Father before
all time. and before the foundation of the world, always had the glory proper
to Godhead.
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