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. The name of a person is the expression of his character or quality. All names were given so in the beginning, and even now they indicate to the hearer the personalities of the ones who bear them. By asking the Father to glorify the Father's name, Jesus was asking that he himself should be exalted as to the Divine Human; that the Divine should flow down into and infill the Son as the outward expression in time and space of the Divine, as the Father's "name" or expression, and so exalt him into oneness with the Father. And his victory over the temptation to resist the natural death which he saw so clearly to be imminent and yet indispensable actually brought about this fuller union of the Son and the Father, for immediately we hear:

"Then there came a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people, therefore, that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said,"—and his answer is very pertinent to our discussion,—"This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes."

Jesus continued, and what he says is an