"FATHER, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
N. B.—This glory which we are to behold cannot be His essential glory as the eternal Son, but His glory as the incarnate one, God manifest in the flesh: and for this reason: it is given to him of the Father. Now we read in the foregoing verse, "The glory which thou gavest me I have given them;" which shows that the glory here spoken of is that which we, as one with Him, are to participate as well as behold; which certainly is not the case with the glory which as one with the Father in the Godhead He had from the beginning.