"AND now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
PARAPHRASE.
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, (i.e., at thy right hand on the throne,) with the glory which, as head of the elect Church, I, not actually, but in purpose, had with thee before the world was.
N.B.—This cannot be His essential glory as God—as the eternal Son. He could not ask His Father to glorify Him with that, it was eternally His, without any diminution or change. He never laid it aside, hence He could not resume it.