Father, glorify thy name] viz. by accepting My willing sacrifice upon the Cross. A voice] The voices from heaven in the NT. are objective in the sense that all present hear them and are startled by them, but only those for whom they are intended understand their meaning. Thus at the Baptism the heavenly voice was understood by Christ and the Baptist, at the Transfiguration by Christ and the chosen three, here by Christ and the apostles, perhaps by Christ alone. Similarly at St. Paul's conversion only St. Paul himself distinguished the words spoken from heaven, though all heard the voice. I have both glorified it] viz. by accepting the offering of Thy life's work, crowned as it is by Thy willing submission to suffer death upon the cross, and will glorify it again by raising Thee from the dead, and placing Thee in glory at My right hand.

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