“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;”
And every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father — homologeō (confess, acknowledge) is voluntary and public: every tongue confesses. The title 'Lord' (kyrios) is the Septuagint's rendering of YHWH. 'Jesus Christ is Lord' (Iēsous Christos kyrios) is the earliest Christian confession (Romans 10:9). Crucially, this magnifies 'God the Father' (doxa tou Theou Patros): Christ's exaltation glorifies the Father, not competing with it. The hymn's theology is trinitarian: exaltation of Son glorifies Father.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!