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 began that process to which Jesus referred as his glorification.

Let us see what glorification means.

To "glorify" means, according to the Standard Dictionary, "to exalt to a state of glory; raise to power and happiness; especially, to uplift to celestial honor and blessedness." But it also has a reciprocal meaning, as when there is a descent of glory upon common things and we speak of them as glorified. We say that glory is shed upon them; but the two definitions are the two sides of the same idea.

This process, in the case of Jesus, was reciprocal, proceeding from Jehovah initially, and in its turn "exalting to a state of glory; raising to power and happiness; especially, uplifting to celestial honor and blessedness," the assumed human.

In the case of man we call this process "regeneration." It is the process to which Jesus refers in his conversation with Nicodemus as "being born again," or "born from above," or "born of the Spirit." Its initial source is in God; it is God operating in the heart of man, uplifting him into a new life, where he becomes the moral image and likeness of God. It is