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 (of emptying himself) or humiliation; and the other state of consciousness, which we may refer to as the state of glorification, when he spoke as absolutely and consciously Divine.

On the plane of the natural, in his states of humiliation, he spoke of the Father as greater than he; he prayed to the Father, and spoke of Him as if He were a distinct being from himself; and yet again in his states of gloriﬁcation he spoke of himself as one with the Father. There was usually an adaptation of this latter consciousness to the states of his hearers, so that they might better understand him. He could never, as we have seen, speak with utter disregard of the states of his hearers. There was always an effort at accommodation or adaptation. It is entirely evident, from the accounts of his life, that the consciousness on the plane of the Divine grew more and more prominent as he progressed, as he threw off the merely human and limited, as the Divine descended lower and lower into the outward.

If we will read the passage in John 12:23—33, we shall see the idea of the Lord's glorification more prominently brought out:

"And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour