“And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed — Jesus requests return to his pre-incarnate glory with the Father, an appeal grounded in pre-existence theology (1:1-2, 8:58). The "glory" (doxa) he possessed before time itself began belongs to his divine nature; the incarnation constituted a temporary humiliation. This petition reveals Jesus' understanding that exaltation through the cross restores rather than grants glory, affirming his identity as the eternal Logos.
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