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30 The reciprocal unition of Divinity with Humanity, and of Humanity with Divinity, in which consisted the glorification of the Son, or his union with the Father, after temptation, is thus described by the Evangelist: "Jesus said, The hour is come, that the Son of Man should be glorified. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again," John xii. 23, 27, 28. "When Judas was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him," John xiii. 51, 52. "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee," John xvii. 1, 5. And to instruct us, that the great end and design of all the sufferings, which our Lord endured while on earth, was (not the pacification of any wrath in the Father, but) the glorification of his own Humanity, according to the eternal principles of divine order, he said to his disciples, "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?" Luke xxiv. 26.

The glorification of the Humanity was the same thing also as the return of Jesus to the Father, or to the divine essence, from which he came forth. He therefore says, "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." John xvi. 28. Prior to, and during the progress of, his glorification, that is, while in his state of humiliation, the Lord was apparently distinct from the Father; for he prayed to him, and said, that the Father was greater than he,