42. Does He not reveal to His Apostles the
Dispensation of this glory by the express signification of the words,
Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
If God hath been glorified in Him, God hath glorified Him in Himself,
and straightway hath He glorified Him St. John xiii. 31, 32. There is another reading in
the text of Hilary, glorificabit, “shall glorify Him in
Himself,” and though it is not well supported by ms. authority, and in ix.
40 all the mss. agree in the perfect honorificavit, the future
is favoured by the last two sentences of this chapter. The
variation between honoured and glorified shews the
confusion of texts which preceded the Vulgate and caused it to be
welcomed.. In the words, Now is the Son of
Man honoured, and God is honoured in Him, we have first the glory
of the Son of Man, then the glory of God in the Son of Man. So
there is first signified the glory of the body, which it borrows from
its association with the divine nature: and then follows the
promotion to a fuller glory derived from an addition to the glory of
the body. If God hath been honoured in Him, God hath honoured
Him in Himself, and straightway hath God honoured Him. God
has glorified Him in Himself, because He has already been glorified in
Him. God was glorified in Him: this refers to the
glory of the body, for by this glory is expressed in a human body the
glory of God, in the glory of the Son of Man is seen the divine
glory. God was glorified in Him, and therefore hath God
glorified Him in Himself: that is, by His promotion to the
Godhead, whose glory was increased in Him, God has glorified Him in
Himself. Already before this He was reigning in the glory which
springs from the divine glory: from henceforth, however, He is
Himself to pass into the divine glory. God hath glorified Him
in Himself: that is, in that nature by which God is what He
is. That God may be all in all: that His whole
being, leaving behind the Dispensation by which He is man, may be
eternally transformed into divinity. Nor is the time of this
hidden from us: And God hath glorified Him in Himself, and
straightway hath He glorified Him. At the moment when Judas
arose to betray Him, He signified as present the glory which He would
obtain after His Passion through the Resurrection, but assigned to the
future the glory with which God would glorify Him with Himself.
The glory of God is seen in Him in the power of the Resurrection, but
He Himself, out of the Dispensation of subjection, will be taken
eternally into the glory of God, that is, into God, the all in
all.