So He says, “By me if any man enter in, he
shall go in and out and shall find pastare.” John x. 9. Again, because to the faithful He is a
defence strong, unshaken, and harder to break than any bulwark, He is a
Rock. Among these titles, it is when He is styled Door, or Way,
that the phrase “through Him” is very appropriate and
plain. As, however, God and Son, He is glorified with and
together with cf. note
on page 3, on μετά and σόν. the Father, in that
“at, the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the
Father.” Phil. ii. 10, 11. Wherefore
we use both terms, expressing by the one His own proper dignity,
and by the other His grace to usward.