4. Some understand these words as proleptic, and take the sense to be: I am about to glorify Thee by My death, to finish the work of _redemption_ which thou gavest Me to do. Others understand of the work of preaching, which was now actually completed, and by which the Father’s name and glory had been manifested _upon the earth_. The latter interpretation seems to us the more natural, and more suited to the context, especially to verse 6: “I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world.” 5. Et nunc clarifica me tu, 5. And now glorify thou me, O Pater, apud temetipsum, Father, with thyself, with the claritate, quam habui, prius glory which I had, before the quam mundus esset, apud te. world was, with thee. 5. In return for His having given glory to the Father _upon the earth_, Christ, as man, prays the Father to glorify Him in heaven. There is a difficulty here, arising from the fact that Christ seems to pray that the glory which as God He possessed from all eternity may be given to Him _as man_. Now, the glory of God is incommunicable, and even the blessed humanity of Christ is incapable of partaking fully thereof. Hence various interpretations have been advanced in order to explain this difficulty:— (1) Some say that Christ, as man, prays merely for that glory which, _in the decrees of God, was given_ to His humanity from all eternity. But against this view is the fact that the fathers generally quoted the latter part of this verse to prove the eternal existence and Divinity of Christ. (2) Hence others, and we believe rightly, hold that in the latter part of the verse there is question of the Divine and eternal glory of Christ, and understand Him to pray that His humanity, according to its capacity, may be made to partake of the glory of the Divinity. Of course, the humanity was incapable of receiving the infinite glory of the Divinity; but the glorious qualities of Christ’s glorified body are a participation, according to the capacity of the body, of the eternal glory of the Son. “Da ut claritas et gloria quam ego ut Deus ab aeterno tecum habeo, communicetur et extendatur usque ad carnem meam, quae propter dispensationem hactenus est suspensa”(109) (Tolet.) 6. Manifestavi nomen tuum 6. I have manifested thy name hominibus, quos dedisti mihi to the men whom thou hast de mundo. Tui erant, et mihi given me out of the world. eos dedisti: et sermonem tuum Thine they were, and to me servaverunt. thou gavest them: and they have kept thy word.