aginable pain and of utmost shame,
the death which to the Jew was the symbol of the curse of God upon the
victim, and to the Roman was a horror of degradation which should be "far
not only from the bodies but from the imaginations of citizens of
Rome."[17]

So He came, and so He suffered, because "He

Ver. 9. looked to the interests of others." +Wherefore also God+, His
God (_ho theos_), +supremely exalted Him+, in His Resurrection and
Ascension, +and conferred upon Him+, as a gift of infinite love and
approval (_echarisato_), +the Name which is above every name+; THE NAME,
unique and glorious; the Name Supreme, the I AM; to be His Name now, not
only as He is from eternity, the everlasting Son of the Father, but as He
became also in time, the suffering and risen Saviour of sinners.[18] In
His whole character and work He is invested now with the transcendent
glory and greatness of divine dignity; every thought of the suffering
Manhood is steeped in the fact that He who, looking on the things of
others, came down to bear it, is now enthroned where only the Absolute
and Eternal King

Ver. 10. can sit; +so that in the Name of Jesus+,[19] in presence of the
revealed majesty of Him who bears, as Man, the human personal Name,
Jesus, +every knee should bow+, as the prophet (Isa. xlv. 23) foretells,
+of things celestial, and terrestrial, and subterranean+, of all created
existence, in its heights and depths; spirits, men, and every other
creature; all bowing, each in their way, to the _imperium_ of the exalted
Jesus,

Ver. 11. JEHOVAH-JESUS; +and that every tongue should confess+, with the
confessing of adoring, praising, worship (_exomologesetai_), +that Jesus
Christ is+ nothing less than +Lord+, in the supreme and ultimate sense of
that mighty word, +to God the Father's glory+. For the worship given to
"His Own Son" (Rom. viii. 32), whose Nature is one with His, whose
glories flow eternally from Him, is praise given to Him.[20]

So closes one of the most conspicuous and magnificent of the dogmatic
utterances of the New Testament. Let us consider it for a few moments
from that point of view alone. We have here a chain of assertions about
our Lord Jesus Christ, made within some thirty years of His death at
Jerusalem; made in the open day of public Christian intercourse, and made
(every reader must feel this) not in the least in the manner of
controversy, of assertion against difficulties and denials, but in the
t