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WHAT IS 
 "THE NAME"? 
 
 OR 
 
 "THE MYSTERY OF GOD" 
 REVEALED 
 
 Written by 
 
 WILLIAM 
 
 PHILLIPS 
 
 HALL 
 
Mbat is 
 
 "Zhc IRame "? 
 
 WRITTEN BY 
 
 WILLIAM PHILLIPS HALL 
 
 **1In XTbe IRame" 
 
 "That they may know 
 
 Zbc (K^wcv^ of (5ot) in Cbriet, 
 
 IN WHOM 
 
 are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden." 
 
 "For IN HIM 
 
 dwelleth ALL the fulness 
 
 of THE GODHEAD bodily." 
 
 Colossians 2 :*2, 9. 
 (ancient reading) 
 
 " For as many of you 
 
 as have been 
 
 baptized into CHRIST 
 
 have put on CHRIST." 
 
 Galatians 3 : 27. 
 
 " If any one be 
 
 Hn Cbrist 
 
 there is 
 
 n IRew Creation; 
 
 old things are passed 
 
 away; behold, all things 
 
 are become new." 
 
 II. Corinthians 5:17. 
 
 WILLIAM PHILLIPS HALL 
 
 GREENWICH CONN, 
 
Copyright, 1913, by 
 WILLIAM PHILLIPS HALL 
 
TO 
 
 "my lord and my god^' 
 
 the lord jesus christ 
 
 'the author and perfecter of our faith,' 
 
 "in whom dwelleth all the fulness of 
 
 THE GODHEAD BODILY/^ 
 
 this book is dedicated. 
 
ADDBESSED 
 TO 
 
 god's ancient and beloved people the jews; 
 
 who^ according to the flesh, are 
 , the children of abraham i 
 
 AND 
 
 TO THOSE WHOy ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT, 
 
 ALSO ARE 
 
 THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND OF ABRAHAM, 
 
 "through FAITH, IN CHRIST JESUS" ; 
 
 THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE 
 
 IN 
 
 CHRIST JESUS THE LORD. 
 
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ 
 Jesus the Lord: and ourselves your servants for 
 Jesus' sake. 
 
 "For God, who commanded the light to shine 
 out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to 
 give the light of the knowledge of the glory 
 of God in the face (Hebraism for "Person") 
 of Jesus Christ." — II. Corinthians 4:5, 6. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface / 
 
 Foreword 
 
 Some Unusual Questions 
 
 A Divine Challenge 
 
 A Startling Statement 
 
 Can It Be Possible ? 
 
 " To the Law, and to the Testimony " 
 
 " The Oracles of God " 
 
 Parables 
 
 Taught His Apostles and Disciples in Parables 
 
 A Most Significant Fact 
 
 A Most Remarkable Conclusion 
 
 What is " the Name " ? 
 
 " The Mystery of God " 
 
 An Analysis of " the Name " 
 
 Relationship Names 
 
 Personal Names 
 
 Let It Now Be Remembered 
 
 It Is Perfectly Clear 
 
 The Crowning Proof 
 
 " The Promise of the Father " 
 
 A Divine Intellectual Illumination 
 
 The Teaching of the Holy Spirit 
 
 Peter's Pentecostal Proclamation 
 
 An Obvious Omission 
 
 A Comparison of Scripture References 
 
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12 CONTENTS 
 
 The Full Triune " Name " Revealed 
 
 The Teacliing of the Spirit of God 
 
 Now Let These Two Facts Be Distinctly Noted 
 
 The True Baptismal " Name " 
 
 The Only Saving " Name " 
 
 An Unescapable Deduction 
 
 Pre-Pentecostal Baptism 
 
 A Logical Conclusion 
 
 The Solution of " The Mystery of God " 
 
 The Final and Completed Proof 
 
 " The Name " of " the Father " 
 
 " The Name " of " the Son " 
 
 " The Name " of " the Holy Spirit " 
 
 " The Name " of " the Lord Jesus Christ " 
 
 " The Secret of the Lord " Revealed 
 
 "These things said Isaiah, when he saw His glory, and 
 
 spake of Him " 
 
 " The Name" 
 
 " The One Foundation " 
 
 The Words of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 
 " The Apostolic Benediction " 
 
PREFACE 
 
 This book has been plainly written, so that 
 it might be easily and clearly understood by 
 the most humble and technically unlearned 
 reader and student of the Bible. 
 
 In a few instances, a direct translation of 
 words from the Greek text has been made, 
 with a view to the most accurate translation of 
 the original in the light of the context. 
 
 In some cases, where the teaching appeared 
 to require such a course, words have been 
 supplied in, and supplemental to, the text; 
 but always in brackets [ ], so that they 
 might be immediately and always recognized 
 as not a part of the text. 
 
 In other cases where explanatory words or 
 statements appeared to be called for in order 
 to more fully bring out the truth, such words or 
 statements have been placed in parentheses ( ) , 
 in quotations, but not as a part of the text. 
 
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14 PREFACE 
 
 Inasmuch as this book consists, in the main, 
 of a study of "the Name" of God, it will be 
 well for the reader, in order to a clear under- 
 standing of that which follows, to bear in mind 
 two facts: 
 
 First, that, as a rule, with ancient Israel, as 
 shown by the Scriptures, the name was not only 
 the personal designation, but also the expres- 
 sion, or revelation, of the personality. 
 
 While this was true, to a greater or lesser 
 extent, of the names of the Israelites, it was, 
 and is, pre-eminently and invariably true of 
 "the Name" of God. 
 
 A knowledge and an interpretation of "the 
 Name" of God, according to the Scriptures, 
 constitute a revelation of God Himself. "The 
 name of God is not a thing arbitrarily thought 
 out; it is of the essence of Deity, a revelation 
 of Himself and so self-expressive; it imparts 
 knowledge of Him and guides in the way of 
 His service (Micah 4:5.)" — "New Schaff- 
 Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge," 
 Vol. 8, page 78. 
 
 This leads to the consideration of the second 
 
PREFACE 15 
 
 fact in this connection, to which we would now 
 direct the reader's attention: namely, that "the 
 Name" of God is not only His Personal desig- 
 nation, as well as the expression, or revelation, 
 of His Personality, but it is, also, in a very true 
 sense, the very Essence, or Essential Personality, 
 of God Himself. 
 
 JMany years ago a good student of the 
 Bible wrote: "Among the creatures, they and 
 their names are two different things; but 
 respecting the blessed God, Himself is His 
 Name, and His Name is Himself." 
 
 One of our writers of a later day has observed 
 that "throughout the Scriptures the Divine 
 Name stands for the Divine Person." — 
 "Butler's Present-Day Conservatism and Liber- 
 ahsm," page 117. 
 
 "The Name of Jehovah as equivalent to the 
 Person of Jehovah, is represented as the subject 
 or the object of various actions." — "Hastings' 
 Dictionary of the Bible," Vol. 3, page 479. 
 
 "Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at 
 His footstool; for He is holy. Moses and 
 Aaron among His priests, and Samuel among 
 
16 PREFACE 
 
 them that call upon His Name; they called 
 upon the Lord, and He answered them." — 
 Psalm 99:5, 6. 
 
 "The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; 
 the Name of the God of Jacob defend thee." 
 —Psalm 20:1. 
 
 In the Scriptures just quoted it will be noted 
 that the words "His Name" and "the Lord"; 
 and "the Lord" and "the Name," are synony- 
 mous — meaning one and the same thing. 
 
 "God is identified with His Name very com- 
 monlj" in Scripture; or, perhaps we should say, 
 the Name of God is used as a periphrasis for 
 God Himself. Where God puts His special 
 Presence, He is said to 'put His Name.' (Deut. 
 12: 5; I. Kings 14: 21; II. Chron. 12: 13). His 
 Name is 'holy and reverend' (Ps. 111:9); 
 'incense is offered unto it' (JNIal. 1:11); it is 
 'magnified forever' (I. Chron. 17:24); for it 
 the temple is built (I. Kings 8:44) ; through it 
 the godly 'tread down their enemies' (Ps. 
 44: 5) ; the 'desire of men's souls is to it' (Isaiah 
 26:8). See also Psalms 92:1; 96:8; 99:3; 
 103:1; 105:1; 113:1; 115:1; 119:.55; 145:1, 2, 
 
PREFACE ' 17 
 
 21; 148:13; 149:3.) "—"Pulpit Commentary," 
 Psalms, page 44. 
 
 The Angel of God's "Name" (of Whom God 
 said: "My Name is in Him"), of Exodus 23: 
 20-22; and "the Angel of His Presence," of 
 Isaiah 63:9; are clearly one and the same; even 
 as God's "Name" and His "Presence" are one 
 and the same. 
 
 "The Name of (the Lord) Jesus Christ 
 embodies the whole content of His Person, and 
 sums up the knowledge of Him and His work." 
 
 "The apostles spread this Name throughout 
 the earth; believers rely upon it (John 1:12), 
 and in it are blessed (Acts 4:12) ; by it miracles 
 are wrought (Acts 16:18), though not as by a 
 formula of magic (cf. John 14:13) ; but in order 
 to accomplish tliis an inner connection with Him 
 is needful (Acts 19:13)." 
 
 "Baptism is in (or "into") His Name, or in 
 (or "into") the Triune Name (Matthew 28:19; 
 Acts 2:38). . . . All of these customs bespeak 
 an inner community with Christ of wliich 
 baptism is but the external expression." — 
 
18 PREFACE 
 
 "New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious 
 Knowledge," Vol. 8, page 78. 
 
 In view of the teaching set forth in the 
 Scriptures cited, and in the light of the 
 deductions drawn therefrom as stated, we may 
 correctly conclude that to "call upon the Name 
 of the Lord" is to "call upon the Lord" Him- 
 self. 
 
 To "believe in His Name" is undoubtedly 
 to "believe in Him," as revealed, interpreted 
 and made known by the meaning of His Name. 
 
 To be "baptized into the Name of the Lord" 
 is, in a spiritual sense, to be baptized into Him, 
 or into His Spirit, as revealed, interpreted and 
 made known by the meaning of His Name. 
 
 To "come in the Name of the Lord" is, in 
 a literal sense, to come bearing His Personal 
 designation: and, in a spiritual sense, to come 
 in Him, or in His Spirit, as revealed, inter- 
 preted and made known by the meaning of His 
 Name; "the Name" of "the Lord" being, in a 
 literal sense, the Personal designation: and, 
 in a spiritual sense, "the Person," or "Spirit," 
 of "the Lord." 
 
PREFACE 19 
 
 Therefore as, "according to the Scriptures," 
 "the Name," and "the Person" of God are 
 essentially one; and as His "Name" is not 
 only His Personal designation, but is, also, the 
 expression, or revelation, of His "Person," 
 it logically follows that if His "Name" be 
 truly revealed, interpreted and made known, 
 so, also, will be His "Person." 
 
 This book sets forth such a revelation and 
 interpretation of "the Name" and, consequently, 
 of "the Person" or "Personahty" of the Triune 
 God. 
 
 L... 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 In pubKshing this book the writer is fully 
 aware of the fact that he is presenting an inter- 
 pretation of "the Name" and "Personality" of 
 the Triune God that cannot be considered 
 otherwise than as revolutionary in itself and 
 in its prospective influence upon the teachings 
 and practice of the Christian Church in all lands. 
 
 With the writer — as is, also, doubtless, the 
 case with an ever-increasing number of Chris- 
 tians who are determined to know fully "the 
 Truth as it is in Jesus" — tradition, whatever 
 its alleged source or its channel, can be accepted 
 only in so far as it harmonizes with the teach- 
 ings of God as those teachings are set forth 
 and interpreted in His Holy Word. 
 
 Careful readers of "The Acts of the Apostles" 
 are becoming increasingly conscious of the fact 
 that that book sets forth the history of a Church 
 whose Divine spirit, life, and service have never 
 
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22 FOREWORD 
 
 been fully equalled by the Church of any sub- 
 sequent century. 
 
 Practically all Christian Church historians 
 agree that the Church of the Apostolic Age 
 was possessed of such an extraordinary measure 
 of Divine illumination and empowerment as has 
 never since been known in the experience of the 
 Church of Christ. 
 
 An interpretation of a command or teaching 
 of the Lord Jesus Christ by that Church, which 
 was in the most complete and unique sense of 
 that term "filled with the Holy Spirit," should 
 ever be of commanding authority with all true 
 believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 The writer has been dominated by that con- 
 viction in the writing of this book. 
 
 It may well be added that the supreme pur- 
 pose of this writing is to make known and to 
 magnify "The Name of the Father, and of the 
 Son, and of the Holy Spirit." 
 
 ** M^ ptupU HlyaU knnm ilg Nam?." 
 Isaiah 52:6. 
 
SOME UNUSUAL QUESTIONS 
 
 "This parable 
 
 spake Jesus unto them: 
 
 but they understood not what things they were 
 
 which He spake unto them." 
 
 John 10:6. 
 
 Has it ever occurred to the reader that the 
 Bible contains many teachings of an inner, or 
 hidden, as well as of an outer, or apparent, 
 meaning? 
 
 Is it not a fact that the teachings — and 
 especially the parables — of the Lord Jesus Christ 
 possess an inner as well as an outer meaning 
 to a marked degree? 
 
 Otherwise it would not have been necessary — 
 as it obviously was necessary — for Him to have 
 explained, or interpreted, any of His parables, 
 or other parabolic teachings, to His apostles and 
 disciples. 
 
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24 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 Is it not a fact that while the inner, as well as 
 the outer, meaning of a number of the Lord's 
 parables, or parabolic sayings, is known — by 
 reason of His recorded explanations of that 
 meaning — both the Christian Church and many 
 of the people of the world at large have been, 
 for many centuries, quite in doubt as to the inner 
 meaning of many of the parables, or parabolic 
 sayings, of the Lord, even up to the present 
 time? 
 
 It is true that all of those parables, or par- 
 abolic sayings, have, at some time or other, 
 been "explained" by theologians; but how many 
 people are at all sure, or know, that those 
 "explanations" — or which of the two or more 
 "explanations" of the same parables, or par- 
 abolic sayings — are the correct ones? 
 
 Why did the Lord Jesus Christ speak to the 
 Jewish people in parables — in teachings whose 
 meanings they could not easily understand, 
 and in many cases did not understand at all? 
 
 Why did the Lord Jesus Christ teach even 
 His apostles and disciples things concerning 
 "the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit" 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 25 
 
 in parables, or parabolic teachings; and for the 
 time being, at least, leave those apostles and 
 disciples in the dark as to the inner, or then 
 hidden, meaning of those parables, or parabolic 
 teachings ? 
 
 Did the Lord Jesus Christ ever explain the 
 inner, or then hidden, meaning of those par- 
 ticular parables, or parabolic discourses, to 
 His apostles and disciples; and, if so, does the 
 Christian Church possess the explanation at the 
 present time? 
 
 Did the Lord Jesus Christ ever promise His 
 apostles and disciples to explain, or interpret, 
 to them His parabolic discourses recorded in 
 the 14th, 15th and 16th chapters of John? 
 
 If so, by Whom and when did He state that 
 promise would be fulfilled? 
 
 What was "the Name" of "the baptismal 
 formula" actually used by the apostles and 
 disciples, as stated by the writers of the New 
 Testament ? 
 
 Is there any record in the New Testament 
 of the baptism of a Jew, or of any one else, 
 literally in the words "in (or "into") the Name 
 
26 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit"? 
 
 Why did the Jewish people in such large 
 numbers so readily accept the Lord Jesus 
 Christ as their Lord and Saviour and Christ at 
 the beginning of the Christian era; and why 
 have those people been so unresponsive to the 
 Gospel — as it has been preached to them — 
 ever since the Apostolic Age? 
 
 What was the original Divine Apostolic 
 Teaching concerning the Deity of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ? 
 
 Does the Christian Church possess and declare 
 that teaching, in all of its completeness, at the 
 present time; or was that teaching, in its most 
 complete form, lost to the Church at, or about, 
 the close of the Apostolic Age? 
 
 Let no reader hereof conclude, without further 
 consideration, that these questions and state- 
 ments are unwarranted, but, rather, let such an 
 one read that which follows before forming a 
 conclusion in the matter. 
 
 The writer believes that, after fully reading, 
 the reader of this book will conclude that a 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 27 
 
 revolution in the Church's teaching regarding 
 the interpretation of the Deity of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, and the Personahty of the Triune 
 God, is not only possible, but right at hand! 
 
 A DIVINE CHALLENGE 
 
 Let the reader now recall that in the book 
 of the prophet Jeremiah (33:3) there appears 
 what may be called A Divine Challenge from 
 the God of Israel to the Israel of God: 
 
 "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, 
 
 AND SHOW thee GREAT AND HIDDEN THINGS, 
 WHICH THOU KNOWEST NOT/^ 
 
 And may not the reader, as has the writer, 
 in response to that Divine Challenge, in the 
 words of Psalm 119: 18, pray: 
 
 O Lord, '"open Thou mine eyes, that i 
 may behold wondrous things out of 
 Thy law." 
 
28 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 A STARTLING STATEMENT 
 
 Although the Lord Jesus Christ commanded 
 His apostles and disciples to "disciple all the 
 nations, baptizing them into the Name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" 
 (Matthew 28:19), neither they nor the Church 
 of the Apostolic Age ever baptized anybody in 
 those words so far as the New Testament bears 
 record! Every actual baptism recorded in the 
 New Testament, where "the Name" or "bap- 
 tismal formula" used is stated, was "in (or 
 "into") the Name of the Lord" (A. V.), or of 
 "the Lord Jesus," or of "Jesus Christ" (A. V. 
 andR.V.). 
 
 There are no exceptions recorded! Any 
 person can verify the accuracy of this statement 
 by reading Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:48 and 19:5 
 (A. V. or R. v.). 
 
 These verses contain all of the records in the 
 New Testament of all actual baptisms where 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 29 
 
 "the Name" or "baptismal formula" used is 
 given ! 
 
 In other words, there is absolutely no support 
 whatever to be found in the New Testament, in 
 the record of "the Name" or "baptismal formula" 
 used in any actual baptism, for the teaching that 
 has prevailed in the Christian Church for some 
 eighteen hundred years, that either the apostles 
 or the Church of the Apostolic Age ever baptized 
 believers in the Lord Jesus Christ in the words 
 "I baptize thee in (or "into") the Name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" ! 
 
 Philip Schaff, D.D., in Lange's Commentary 
 on Matthew, page 558, quotes Meyer as stating: 
 "No trace is to be found of the employment of 
 these words by the Apostolic Church." 
 
 George T. Purves, D.D., in his book 
 entitled "Christianity in the Apostolic Age," 
 page 36, states: "The first record of their use in 
 baptism is in 'The Teaching of the Apostles' 
 (about A. D. 100)." 
 
 So far as historical Christian research has 
 shown, the only authoritj^ — outside of the original 
 command literally interpreted — for the use of the 
 
30 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 words of "the baptismal formula": "in (or 
 "into") the Name of the Father, and of the Son, 
 and of the Holy Spirit," is that of tradition; 
 descending, it is true, from very remote sources, 
 but not from the apostles in or through the writ- 
 ings of the New Testament, nor from other 
 writers of the New Testament, in writing of a 
 period including and subsequent to the day of 
 Pentecost ! 
 
 CAN IT BE POSSIBLE? 
 
 Can it be possible — as some scholars have 
 thought — that the words: "the Name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," 
 are of later authorship than any recorded words 
 ever spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ? Or that 
 there is a clear contradiction between the com- 
 mand of the liord Jesus Christ to His apostles 
 and disciples to baptize "into the Name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," 
 and the fact that those very apostles and dis- 
 ciples according to all New Testament record, 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 31 
 
 as already shown, invariably baptized all who 
 believed in the Lord Jesus Christ in (or "into") 
 the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ? 
 
 Or must Christians continue to believe — as 
 they have been taught, according to sub- Apos- 
 tolic tradition, to believe for some eighteen 
 hundred years — that when the New Testament 
 clearly and invariably states, in the account of 
 all actual baptisms recorded where the baptismal 
 "Name" or "formula" is stated, that baptism 
 in the Apostolic Church and by the apostles 
 was administered "in (or "into") the Name 
 of the Lord," or of "the Lord Jesus," or of 
 "Jesus Christ" — which, in this connection, are 
 in each and every case, as we shall show, 
 but abbreviations of the full Name of "the 
 Lord Jesus Christ" — it was really, literally, 
 administered in the words: "I baptize thee in 
 (or "into") the Name of the Father, and of 
 the Son, and of the Holy Spirit"? 
 
 Or did the Lord Jesus Christ command His 
 apostles and disciples to baptize in (or "into") 
 a certain "Name," and, notwithstanding that 
 command, did His apostles and disciples ever 
 
32 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 thereafter — all through the Apostolic Age — 
 baptize in (or "into") another "Name"? 
 
 A NEGATIVE REPLY 
 
 To all of these questions we reply most 
 emphatically in the negative! 
 
 The apostle Paul, in Romans 3:3, 4, says : 
 "For what if some did not believe? Shall their 
 unbelief make The Faith of God of no effect? 
 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every 
 man a liar; as it is written. That Thou mightest 
 be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest over- 
 come when judged." 
 
 "TO THE LAW, AND TO THE 
 TESTIMONY" 
 
 From ancient times it has been the usual 
 practice with the people of God to resort to 
 an examination of the teachings of the Bible 
 upon any subject of doubtful meaning of which 
 that Book treats. 
 
 The prophet Isaiah (8:20) says: "To the 
 law, and to the testimony: if they speak not 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 33 
 
 according to this Word, it is because there is 
 no light in them." 
 
 "THE ORACLES OF GOD" 
 
 Pursuant to the long-established practice of 
 the people of God, and in accordance with the 
 Divine instruction, given through the prophet 
 Isaiah, which makes that practice obligatory, we 
 shall now proceed, further, to consult "The 
 Oracles of God." 
 
 PARABLES 
 
 The Lord Jesus Christ addressed the multi- 
 tudes who waited upon His Divine Ministry, 
 during a large part of that Ministry, almost 
 altogether in parables: as may be noted in 
 Matthew 13:34, where we read: "All these 
 things spake Jesus unto the multitudes in par- 
 ables: and without a parable spake He not unto 
 them." 
 
 A careful reading of the New Testament 
 along this line most clearly discloses the fact 
 that the parables, or parabolic teachings, of the 
 
34 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 Lord Jesus Christ were, in many cases, very 
 evidently intended not only to teach Divine 
 truth, but to teach it in such veiled form as to 
 require Plis subsequent interpretation, either 
 by word of mouth or through the Holy Spirit, 
 in order to a complete understanding of the 
 same. 
 
 These facts are fully develoj^ed in the 
 accounts of the parable of "The Sower" as 
 given in Matthew 13:1-23; Mark 4:1-20 and 
 Luke 8:4-15. 
 
 In these three accounts we discover the follow- 
 ing facts: First, a parabolic teaching of Divine 
 truth by the Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples 
 and the multitudes; second, a lack of under- 
 standing of the same by the disciples, and 
 undoubtedly by the multitudes; third, its pos- 
 session of both an outer, or apparent, as well 
 as of an inner, or hidden, meaning; fourth, the 
 latter fact being clearly evidenced in the neces- 
 sity for and fact of its subsequent interpretation 
 by the Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples. 
 
 "And Math many such parables spake He 
 the Word unto them, as they were able to 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 35 
 
 hear it ; and without a parable spake He not 
 unto them: but privately to His own 
 disciples He expounded (explained the 
 meaning of or interpreted), all things." 
 Mark 4:33, 34. R. V. 
 
 Therefore a parable, as a form of teaching 
 used by the Lord Jesus Christ, may be properly 
 defined not only as "an earthly story with a 
 heavenly meaning," but, also, as an esoteric, as 
 well as an exoteric, teaching; or a teaching with 
 an inner, or hidden, as well as with an outer, or 
 apparent, meaning. 
 
 TAUGHT HIS APOSTLES 
 AND DISCIPLES IN PARABLES 
 
 There were some tilings, however, that the 
 Lord Jesus Christ taught even to His 
 apostles and disciples in parables which, 
 at the time of delivery, He did not explain 
 to them, He deferring their explanation to that 
 time when He, through the Holy Spirit, 
 made all things clear to them. This fact 
 is evidenced in His words recorded in John 
 16:25: "These things have I spoken unto 
 
30 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 you (His apostles and disciples) in para- 
 bles: but the hour cometh when I shall no 
 more speak unto you in parables, but shall 
 tell you plainly of the Father." 
 
 These words were spoken immediately after 
 He had spoken the words recorded in John 
 16:12-15: "I have yet manj?^ things to say 
 unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 
 Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is 
 come, He shall guide you into all the Truth: 
 for He shall not S23eak of Himself; but 
 what things soever He shall hear, these 
 shall He speak: and He shall declare unto 
 you the things that are to come. 
 
 "He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of 
 INIine, and shall declare it unto you. All 
 things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine: 
 therefore said I, He taketh of INIine, and 
 shall declare it unto you." 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 37 
 
 A MOST SIGNIFICANT FACT 
 
 The reader will do well to note the most 
 significant fact that the parables, or para- 
 bolic discourses, spoken by the Lord Jesus 
 Christ to His apostles and disciples, as 
 recorded in the Scriptures just quoted, as 
 well as all others recorded in the 14th, 15th 
 and 16th chapters of John, relate to the 
 mystery of the Triune God: — that is, to the 
 mystery of "the Name," and to "the Three 
 Divine Persons" of that "Name":— "the 
 Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit." 
 
 A MOST REMARKABLE CONCLUSION 
 
 Let it now be noted, as has just been 
 shown, that the Lord Jesus Christ told His 
 apostles and disciples that His teacliings 
 about "the Father, and the Son, and the 
 Holy Spirit" were spoken to them in para- 
 bles, but that the time would come when 
 
38 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 He would no more speak unto them in 
 parables, but would "telF' them "plainly of 
 the Father." 
 
 Did He "tell" them "plainly of the 
 Father" prior or subsequent to the time 
 when He commanded them to "disci j)le all 
 the nations, baptizing them into the Name 
 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
 Holy Spirit"? 
 
 We believe that the evidence in the 
 case — as herein shown — points unerringly to 
 a subsequent disclosure, and that the words: 
 "the Name of the Father, and of the Son, 
 and of the Holy Spirit" constitute a para- 
 bolic "formula," or parable, in the sense in 
 which the Lord Jesus Christ used that, or its 
 equivalent, expression in John 16:25. 
 
 WHAT IS "THE NAME"? 
 
 OR 
 
 WHAT IS "THE NAME of THE FATHER, 
 
 AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT"? 
 
 Now assuming, as already suggested, that 
 the so-called "baptismal formula" — as con- 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 39 
 
 tained in the words: "the Name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit" — is a parabolic "formula," or parable 
 (or, in other words, a saying with an 
 inner, or hidden, as well as with an outer, 
 or apparent, meaning), we will carefully 
 examine and analyze this "formula," and, 
 by so doing, endeavor to discover its inner, 
 or hidden, meaning. 
 
 In the first place, we note that in this 
 "formula" One "Name" only is mentioned — 
 "the Name"; and, in the second place, we 
 note that this One "Name" applies to, is 
 possessed by, and includes Three Persons: 
 "the Father, and the Son, and the Holy 
 Spirit." 
 
 This is indeed — on its face — a very myste- 
 rious (or parabolic) saying. 
 
 It is also a sajang which if taken in its 
 literal (apparent) sense — as it has been 
 taken by the Christian Church for some 
 eighteen hundred years — certainly involves a 
 paradox ! 
 
 For how can these "Three Persons" be 
 
40 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 "Named" by, possess, and be included in 
 One "Name"? Traditional orthodox theology, 
 in substance, rephes: "The Three Persons of 
 the baptismal formula are the Three Persons 
 of One Divine Essence in the Godhead — 
 'the Father, and the Son, and the Holy 
 Spirit' — and all Three together constitute the 
 One Living and True God: and their Three 
 Names — 'Father, Son and Holy Spirit' — all 
 together constitute One Name — the Name of 
 the Triune God." 
 
 It is most Scripturally true that there are 
 "Three Persons of One Divine Essence in 
 the Godhead" — "the Father, and the Son, and 
 the Holy Spirit" — but does it necessarily, 
 logicalh", or Scripturally follow that "the 
 Name of the Father, and of the Son, and 
 of the Holy Spirit" is contained in the words 
 "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"? 
 
 It is true that for some eighteen hundred 
 years traditional orthodox theology has held 
 to that view, at the same time confessing 
 that, as so expressed, "God is a Mystery." 
 
 So great is the mystery involved in this 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 41 
 
 interpretation of "the Name" of God that 
 it has, ever since the Apostohc Age, been 
 called 
 
 "THE MYSTERY OF GOD." 
 
 Is it possible, or even thinkable, that, after 
 some eighteen hundred years, the mystery of 
 "the Name" of the Triune God in "the 
 baptismal formula" — which is pre-eminently 
 "The Mystery of God"— <!an be solved? If 
 such solution is possible, and if it can really 
 be discovered, and made known to men, will 
 it not count in both moral and spiritual 
 values for more than all of the discoveries 
 of man in all fields since the beginning of 
 human history? 
 
 In case of the discovery of such solution, 
 then indeed will it be, at last, possible, in 
 the most complete Scriptural meaning of 
 that term, for all men to "know the Lord 
 . . . from the least of them unto the greatest 
 of them"; and then indeed will it be possible 
 for the earth to be filled with "the knowledge 
 of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." 
 
42 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 With these thoughts of the paramount 
 importance of the subject we have now 
 under consideration, we shall reverently, and 
 in full dependence upon the illuminating 
 grace of the Holy Spirit, proceed further to 
 consider this greatest of all great themes. 
 If it be true, as it so appears, that the solution 
 of "the Mystery of God" is to be discovered 
 in the solution of the mystery of "the Name of 
 the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit," then may we not pertinently inquire: 
 What is "the Name of the Father, and of the 
 Son, and of the Holy Spirit"? 
 
 AN ANALYSIS OF "THE NAME" 
 
 Now let it be noted that the Lord Jesu^ 
 Christ commanded His apostles and disciples 
 to baptize — NOT into the Name Father, Son, 
 Holy Spirit; NOR into the Name the Father, 
 the Son, the Holy Spirit; NOR into the Name 
 the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit: 
 but "into THE NA:ME OF the Father, and 
 OF the Son, and OF the Holy Spirit"! 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 43 
 
 In other words, the Lord Jesus Christ com- 
 manded His apostles and disciples to baptize, 
 NOT INTO THOSE WORDS, but "into THE NAME 
 OF Each and All of "the Three Persons of 
 One Divine Essence (or "Name") in the 
 Godhead"; Whose Divine Relationships are 
 described, and Whose Divine Persons are 
 clearly and positively implied in those words! 
 
 RELATIONSHIP NAMES 
 
 The names father, son, and spirit, as applied 
 to man, are relationship names. No one would 
 ever think of declaring them to be personal 
 names, for such a declaration would be obvi- 
 ously absurd! 
 
 The Names Father, Son, and Spirit (Who 
 is Essentially Holy), as applied to "the Three 
 Persons of One Divine Essence (or "Name") 
 in the Godhead" are, also, Relationship 
 Names. For as "the Father" is related to 
 "His Son" as "Father"; and as "the Son" is 
 related to "the Father" as "His Son"; and as 
 "the Spirit" is related to "the Father" and "the 
 
44 AVHAT IS "the name" 
 
 Son," as "the Spirit of the Father" and "the 
 Spirit of His Son"; so the Names Father, 
 Son, and Spirit are Names of those Relation- 
 ships. They have been considered Personal 
 Names — or the Triune Personal Name of the 
 Triune God — only through a misinterpretation, 
 and consequent misunderstanding, of the whole 
 matter ! 
 
 While it is true, as regards both God and 
 man, that the Names Father, Son, and Spirit, 
 clearly imply personality in each, yet they are 
 not Personal Names, but Relationship Names, 
 as has just been clearly and positively shown! 
 
 PERSONAL NAMES 
 
 Now as every father among the fathers of 
 men possesses a personal name by which he is 
 known; and as every son among the sons of 
 men has a personal name by which he is known; 
 and as the spirit of every man must, logically, 
 be known by the personal name of the man 
 whose spirit it is — for otherwise there would 
 be no personal identitj^ so far as the personal 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 45 
 
 name establishes that identity, among the 
 Hving or the dead — so, in hke manner, "the 
 Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit" — 
 those "Three Persons of One Divine Essence 
 (or "Name") in the Godhead" — Each possesses 
 a Personal Name by which He should be iden- 
 tified or known! 
 
 And as the Scriptures clearly teach that 
 those "Three Persons of One Divine Essence 
 (or "Name")" are "in the Godhead," their 
 Three Personal Names, when revealed^ inter- 
 preted AND UNITED, must Scripturally and 
 logically form the One Personal Triune Name 
 of the Triune God! 
 
 And when so made known, that "Name" 
 will unerringly prove to be "the Name of 
 the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit" — "the Name" into which the Lord 
 Jesus Christ commanded His apostles and 
 disciples to baptize all who should "believe in 
 Him"; or who, in other words, should "believe 
 in His Name"! 
 
46 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 LET IT NOW BE REMEMBERED 
 
 Let it now be remembered — as has already, 
 in part, been noted — that the Lord Jesus 
 Christ made the following statements and 
 promises to His apostles and disciples: 
 
 First: (John 14:16-20) "I will pray the 
 Father, and He shall give you another Com- 
 forter, that He may be with you forever, even 
 the Sj)irit of Truth; Whom the world cannot 
 receive; for it beholdeth Him not, neither 
 knoweth Him: but ye know Him, for He 
 abideth with you, and shall be in you. I will 
 not leave you desolate: I will come to you. 
 Yet a little while and the world beholdeth Me 
 no more; but ye behold Me: because I live, ye 
 shall live also. In that day ye shall know that 
 I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." 
 
 These words undoubtedly refer to "the gift 
 of the Holy Spirit": "the Spirit of Truth": 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 47 
 
 Who, at the time these words were spoken, 
 dwelt with the apostles and disciples in the 
 Personality of the Lord Jesus Christ; and Who 
 was "poured forth" upon, and received by, 
 those very apostles and disciples upon the day 
 of Pentecost. (See Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-8; 
 2:1-4.) 
 
 Second: (John 14:25, 26) "These things have 
 I spoken unto you, while yet abiding 
 with you. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, 
 Whom the Father will send in My Name, He 
 shall teach you all things, and bring all things 
 to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said 
 unto you." 
 
 In these words the Lord Jesus Christ plainly 
 declares that the Holy Spirit, when He comes 
 unto the apostles and disciples, will not only 
 "bring all things to" their "remembrance, what- 
 soever" He had "said unto" them; but that He 
 would also "teach" them — or interpret to them 
 fully — "all things whatsoever" He "had said 
 unto" them. 
 
 Third: (John 15:26) "But when the Com- 
 forter is come. Whom I will send unto you 
 
48 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, 
 Who proceedeth from the Father, He shall 
 testify of IMe." 
 
 In these words we learn that "the Spirit of 
 Truth, Who proceedeth (or is "breathed forth" 
 as the word indicates) from the Father," was 
 to be sent unto the apostles and disciples by the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 This promise was fulfilled by the Father in 
 and through the Son upon the day of Pente- 
 cost; as may be noted in Acts 2:32, 33: "This 
 Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are 
 witnesses. Being therefore by the right hand 
 of God exalted, and having received of the 
 Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He hath 
 poured forth this, which ye now see and hear." 
 
 Is not this pouring forth of the Holy Spirit 
 from the Father in and through the Son, at 
 least prophetically, interpreted in the act and 
 words of the Lord Jesus Christ recorded in 
 John 20:21-23? 
 
 "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace 
 be unto you: as My Father hath sent 
 Me, even so send I you. And when He 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 49 
 
 had said this, He breathed on them, and 
 saith unto them, Receive (hterally "take") 
 ye the Holy Spirit: whose soever sins 
 ye remit, they are remitted unto them: 
 and whose soever sins ye retain, they 
 are retained." 
 
 In these words we learn that the Holy Spirit 
 (Who is also "the Spirit of Truth") "Who 
 proceedeth (or is "breathed forth") from the 
 Father" — and Whom the Lord Jesus Christ 
 declared: "I will send unto you from the 
 Father" — was, at least prophetically, "breathed 
 forth" from the Personality, and through the 
 lips, of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Fourth: (John 16:7, 12-15, 23-26) "Never- 
 theless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for 
 you that I go away: for if I go not away, the 
 Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, 
 I will send Him unto you." 
 
 "I have yet many things to say unto you, 
 but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when 
 He, the Spirit of Truth, is come. He shall guide 
 you into all the Truth: for He shall not speak 
 
50 WHAT IS ' THE NAME ' 
 
 of Himself: but what things soever He shall 
 hear, these shall He speak; and He shall 
 declare unto you the things that are to come 
 (or, the things that are to be revealed?). 
 
 "He shall glorify Me: for He shall take of 
 JNIine, and shall declare it unto you. All 
 things that the Father hath are Mine: there- 
 fore said I, that He taketh of Mine, and shall 
 declare it unto you." 
 
 "And in that day ye shall ask INIe nothing 
 (or "no question"). 
 
 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall 
 ask anything of the Father in My Name, He 
 will give it you. 
 
 "Hitherto have ye asked nothing (of the 
 Father?) in My Name: ask, and ye shall 
 receive, that your joy may be full. 
 
 "These things have I spoken unto you in para- 
 bles; but the hour cometh when I shall no 
 more speak unto you in parables, but shall tell 
 you plainly of the Father. 
 
 "In that day ye shall ask (the Father?) in 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 51 
 
 My Name, and I say not unto you, that I 
 will pray the Father for you." 
 
 In the words of the Lord Jesus Christ just 
 quoted. He declares that He must leave His 
 apostles and disciples before the Holy Spirit 
 — the Spirit of Truth — will come unto them. 
 He states that after His departure He will send 
 the Spirit of Truth unto them. 
 
 He declares that they are not, then, able to 
 bear (because they could not understand?) 
 many things that He would say unto them: but 
 that "the Spirit of Truth" would tell them 
 those things, by "guiding" them "into all the 
 Truth" (He having previously declared Him- 
 self to be "the Truth" in John 14:6). 
 
 In that work of "guiding" them "into all the 
 Truth," "the Spirit of Truth" was to glorify 
 Him: and that glorifying was to be effected by 
 taking His "things" (the things that concern 
 and constitute His Personality?), which are 
 also "the things" of the Father (See John 
 10:25-38), and declaring them unto His 
 apostles and disciples. 
 
 In that day when these things shall be 
 
52 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 accomplished, they shall not question Him 
 (See Acts 1:6, 7: noting that they did question 
 Him after His resurrection, and up to the time 
 of His ascension) ; but they shall ask (or, 
 pray to) the Father in His Name — a thing 
 they had not done up to the time this statement 
 was made. 
 
 And then He declares that all of these things 
 have been spoken unto them in parables — in 
 sajnngs whose meanings they could not then 
 fully understand, because they were not yet 
 gifted with that Divine spiritual discernment 
 which was to be theirs when "the Spirit of 
 Truth" should come unto them; and, then, 
 through that Spirit, He would "tell them 
 plainly of the Father." 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 53 
 
 IT IS PERFECTLY CLEAR 
 
 "It is expedient for you that I go away: 
 
 for if I go not away, 
 
 the Comforter will not come unto you: 
 
 but if I go, 
 
 I will send Him unto you." 
 
 John 16:7. 
 
 It is perfectly clear, from the preceding 
 statements of the Lord Jesus Christ, that all 
 of His parables, or parabolic sayings, were to 
 be made perfectly plain to His apostles and 
 disciples, by Him, after His ascension, through 
 the Holy Spirit, when He should come unto 
 them. 
 
 THE CROWNING PROOF 
 
 Was that promise fulfilled to those apostles 
 and disciples to whom it was originally made? 
 If it was fulfilled, what was "the Crowning 
 Proof" of its fulfillment? Does the Church of 
 Christ possess that "Crowning Proof" to-day, 
 namely, the solution of "the Mystery of God," 
 
54 WHAT IS ' THE NAME ' 
 
 which the Lord Jesus Christ promised His 
 apostles and disciples would be made plain, or 
 clear, to them by Him through the Holy Spirit 
 when He should come unto them? 
 
 "THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER" 
 
 "The promise of the Father," given through 
 the jDrophets, and repeated by the Father in 
 and through the Son (Heb. 1:1, 2. R. V.), of 
 "the gift of the Holy Spirit," was fulfilled by 
 the Father in and through the Son upon the 
 day of Pentecost. 
 
 On that day He, "the Spirit of Truth," did 
 come, and then and there, in the City of 
 Jerusalem, "guided" the apostles and disciples 
 "into all the Truth," which they before that day 
 had not fully understood: — thereby making 
 clear "the Mystery of God," which before that 
 day had been hidden in the words: "the Name 
 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit," even as that same "Mystery" has been 
 hidden in those same words ever since the 
 Apostolic Age until now! 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 55 
 
 A DIVINE INTELLECTUAL ILLU- 
 MINATION 
 
 "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, 
 
 Whom the Father will send 
 
 in My Name, 
 
 He shall teach you all things, 
 
 and bring all things to your remembrance, 
 
 whatsoever I have said unto you." 
 
 John 14:26. 
 
 When, on the day of Pentecost, the apostles 
 and disciples were "anointed" with the Holy 
 Spirit (which "anointing" was also "the gift of 
 the Holy Spirit"), they received therewith a 
 most marvellous intellectual illumination. 
 
 John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved," in 
 writing to certain ones who had been so 
 "anointed," said, as recorded in I. John 
 2:20, 27; "But ye have an anointing (Greek 
 "Chrisma") from the Holy One (the Lord 
 Jesus Christ: see John 6:69, R. V., and Acts 
 3:14), and ye know all things." 
 
56 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 ("All things that the Father hath are 
 JNIine: therefore said I, that He shall take 
 of Mine, and shall declare it unto you." 
 John 16:15. 
 
 "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, 
 nor ear heard, neither have entered into 
 the heart of man, the things which God 
 hath prepared for them that love Him. 
 
 "But God hath revealed them unto us 
 by the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all 
 things, yea, the deep things of God." 
 I. Cor. 2:9, 10.) 
 
 "But the anointing which ye have received 
 abideth with you, and ye need not that any 
 man teach you: but as the same anointing 
 teacheth you of all things, and is Truth ("the 
 Spirit of Truth": see John 16:13) and is no 
 lie, and even as it hath taught you, so abide ye 
 in Him." 
 
 "And the disciples 
 
 were called Christians (Anointed Ones?) 
 
 first at Antioch." 
 
 Acts 11:26. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 57 
 
 ON PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11 
 
 "In the Name of Jesus every knee should 
 bow; i.e., worship and adoration should be made 
 by all intellectual beings (or beings endowed 
 with capable faculties) TO Jesus Christ (Isaiah 
 
 45:23) But, as if the apostle 
 
 had not sufficiently expressed the Divine glory 
 of His Master, he adds: 'And that every 
 tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is 
 Lord IN the glory of God the Father.' 
 
 "Thus Novatianus renders the words, and 
 draws from them an unanswerable argument of 
 our Saviour's divinity. De. Trin. C. XXII. 
 Hilary, in his exposition of the 138th Psalm, 
 uses the same reading. 
 
 "The (Greek) preposition eis is frequentlj^ 
 used for en (and en for eis) in the Scriptures. 
 See Acts 19:22; 23:11, &c."— "Horae Soli- 
 tariae." 
 
58 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 THE 
 
 TEACHING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 
 
 CONCERNING "THE NAME of 
 
 THE FATHER, and of THE SON, 
 
 and of THE HOLY SPIRIT. " 
 
 "God also hath highly exalted Him, 
 
 and given Him THE NAME 
 
 which is above every name; 
 
 that in (or "unto"?) THE NAME of Jesus 
 
 every knee should bow . . . ; 
 
 and that every tongue should confess 
 
 that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD— JEHOVAH— 
 
 IN the glory of God the Father." 
 
 Philippians 2:9-11 
 
 (the 11th verse being rendered according to 
 John Wesley in his "Explanatory Notes upon 
 The New Testament," page 509.) 
 (See, also, Isaiah 45:23 and Romans 14:11.) 
 
 If it can be certainly determined — "accord- 
 ing to the Scrijotures," and not according to any 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 59 
 
 sub- Apostolic tradition that is contrary thereto 
 — into what "Name" baptism was administered 
 on the day of Pentecost, that "Name," beyond 
 all question, will prove to be "THE NAME 
 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit" ! 
 
 PETER'S PENTECOSTAL PROCLAMATION 
 
 In that memorable address of Peter, given 
 under the anointing of the Holy Spirit — Who 
 is "the Spirit of Truth" — on the day of Pente- 
 cost, he said, among many other things: "Let 
 all the house of Israel know assuredly, that 
 God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye 
 have crucified, both Lord and Christ (these two 
 names, in the Greek of the Septuagint, stand for 
 Jehovah and Messiah) . 
 
 "Now when they heard this they were 
 pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and 
 to the rest of the apostles. Men and brethren, 
 what shall we do?" 
 
 ( Now let it be kept distinctly in mind that the 
 
GO WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 reply of Peter to this question was immediately 
 inspired of the Holy Spirit: 
 
 AND THIS IS WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT, 
 THROUGH PETER, REPLIED): 
 
 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be 
 baptized every one of you in the Name of 
 [the Lord] Jesus Christ unto the remission of 
 your sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the 
 Holy Spirit. For the promise is unto you, and 
 to your children, and to all that are afar off, 
 even as many as the Lord our God shall call." 
 Acts 2:36-39. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 61 
 
 AN OBVIOUS OMISSION 
 
 Let it be noted, at this point, that the omission 
 from the text of the words "the Lord, which 
 we have supplied in brackets, before the words 
 "Jesus Christ," not only deprives the Lord 
 Jesus Christ of His first "Name"— "the Name" 
 of "the Lord," which God the Father had given 
 Him when He "made" Him "Lord" (See Luke 
 2:11), as stated in the preceding 36th verse — 
 but also, consequently, obscures the teaching! 
 That those very words "the Lord" belong in 
 that very place in the complete Apostolic 
 "baptismal formula" or "Name," is clearly and 
 positively shown in Acts 8:16 and 19:5, where, 
 in both verses, the words "the Name of the Lord 
 Jesus" are given in the "baptismal formula" or 
 "Name" used, but the word "Christ" is omitted! 
 
 To most clearly bring out and make plain 
 this fact, the writer presents the comparative 
 arrangement of the four Scripture references 
 set forth below. (R. V.) 
 
 (In noting this remarkable comparison, let 
 
62 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 the reader recall the fact, previously noted in 
 this book, that these four references contain the 
 only record in the New Testament of the "bap- 
 tismal formula" or "Name" used in actual 
 baptisms therein recorded!) 
 
 A COMPARISON OF SCRIPTURE 
 REFERENCES 
 
 Acts 2:38: "Then Peter 
 said unto them^ Repent, 
 and be baptized every 
 one of you 
 
 in [to] the Name of [the Lord] Jesus 
 
 Christ." 
 
 Acts 8:16: "Only they 
 were baptized 
 
 into the Name of the Lord Jesus 
 
 [Christ]." 
 
 Acts 10:48: "And he 
 commanded them to be 
 baptized 
 
 in [to] the Name of [the Lord] Jesus 
 
 Christ." 
 
 Acts 19:5: "When they 
 heard this they were 
 baptized 
 
 into the Name of the Lord Jesus 
 [Christ]." 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 63 
 
 THE FULL TRIUNE "NAME" REVEALED 
 
 The reader will note the remarkable fact that 
 the four Scripture references set forth above 
 include two pairs of identical, but obviously 
 incomplete, "baptismal formulas." 
 
 Now by supplying, or combining, the missing 
 word or words in either pair of "formulas" with 
 the word or words supplied by the other pair 
 of "formulas," we discover that the complete 
 Apostolic "baptismal formula" declared bap- 
 tism "into the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 "For as many of you as were 
 baptized into Christ 
 did put on Christ." 
 Galatians 3:27. 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME 
 
 THE TEACHING OF THE SPIRIT 
 OF GOD 
 
 I. Corinthians 2:7-13. 
 
 "But we speak the wisdom of God in a 
 mystery, even the hidden wisdom which 
 God foreordained before the ages unto our 
 glor}'; which none of the rulers of this age 
 knew: for had they known, they would not 
 have crucified the Lord of the glory — ("the Lord 
 — Jehovah — of the Shechinah"). 
 
 "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor 
 ear heard, neither have entered into the heart 
 of man, the things which God hath prepared 
 for them that love Him. 
 
 "But God hath revealed them unto us (the 
 apostles and others anointed with the Holy 
 Spirit) by the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth 
 all things, yea, the deep things of God. 
 
 "For what man knoweth the things of a 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 65 
 
 man, save the spirit of man which is in him? 
 Even so the things of God knoweth no man, 
 but the Spirit of God. 
 
 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the 
 world, but the Spirit of God; that we might 
 know the things, that are freely given us, of 
 God. 
 
 "Which things also we speak (or write) not 
 in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but 
 which the Holy Spirit teacheth, combining 
 spiritual things with spiritual." 
 
 In Lange's Commentary on I. Corinthians 
 2:7-13; page 59, we read: "The deep things 
 of God," meaning "the inmost recesses of God, 
 the otherwise unexplorable depths where His 
 thoughts and volitions have free play, the hidden 
 mystery of His Personality, which corresponds 
 to those mysteries of His Kingdom and of all 
 His works and ways which the Spirit reveals." 
 
 Let the reader note the remarkable similarity 
 existing between the statements of Paul as to 
 the source and methods of securing knowledge 
 of "the deep things of God," "the hidden 
 mj'stery of His Personality," and the obvious 
 
66 WHAT IS THE NAME 
 
 source, method and fact of the disclosure of 
 "the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and 
 of the Holy Spirit" as "the Name of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ," as set forth in tliis book! 
 
 "No one can say 
 
 Jesus is Lord (Jehovah) 
 
 but in the Holy Spirit." 
 
 I. Corinthians 12:3. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 67 
 
 "But the remission of sins through (or 
 ''in) His Name, that is, through (or ''in^') 
 His Person, when it is acknowledged and 
 confessed, unmistakably presupposes that 
 He is personally the medium through (or 
 "in") whom Divine grace and forgiveness 
 ARE obtained: or, in other words. He is the 
 Author of the Reconciliation." Lange's 
 Commentary, Acts 10:43, page 205. 
 
68 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 NOW LET TPIESE TWO FACTS BE 
 DISTINCTLY NOTED 
 
 First: That the Lord Jesus Christ ("that 
 same Jesus that God hath made both Lord and 
 Chi'ist") had commanded His apostles and 
 disciples to baptize all who should believe in 
 Him "into the Name of the Father, and of the 
 Son, and of the Holy Spirit." 
 
 Second: That on the day of Pentecost 
 (when they were given of the Holy Spirit to 
 know "all things whatsoever" the Lord Jesus 
 Christ had "said unto" them), and always 
 afterward, those apostles and disciples baptized 
 all who believed in Him into His Name! 
 
 Thus it will be clearly and unmistakably seen 
 that, with His Lord's command to baptize all 
 who should believe in Him (or who should 
 "believe in His Name") "into the Name of 
 the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit" still fresh in his mind, Peter, and all 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 69 
 
 of his fellow-apostles and disciples, in all cases 
 recorded in the New Testament — as previously 
 noted and explained — baptized all who believed 
 in the Lord Jesus Christ into the Name of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ: and by that act plainly 
 showed and declared that "the Name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" 
 was, as it is, and ever shall be, "the Name of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ"! 
 
70 WHAT IS "the NAMF.' 
 
 THE TRUE BAPTISMAL "NAME" 
 
 IS 
 
 THE SAVING "NAME OF THE LORD 
 
 JESUS CHRIST" 
 
 For many centuries doubtless multitudes of 
 thoughtful Christians have wondered why they 
 have believed, unto salvation, in One "Name," 
 and have been baptized, as a sign of that salva- 
 tion, into another "Name." By this interpreta- 
 tion of the Holy Spirit it is made perfectly 
 clear that the saving "Name" and the true 
 baptismal "Name" are One and the Same: — 
 even as the saving "Name" and the saving 
 "Personality" are One and the Same! 
 
 For — as has been shown — on the day of 
 Pentecost the Holy Spirit showed and 
 declared through Peter, that "the — baptismal 
 — Name of the Father, and of the Son, and 
 of the Holy Spirit" was, as it is, and ever 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 71 
 
 shall be, "the — saving — Name of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ"! 
 
 On that day salvation was proclaimed, and 
 baptism was administered as a sign of that 
 salvation, "in (or "into") the Najme of [the 
 Lord] Jesus Christ"! 
 
 Thus is it clearly and jiositively shown by 
 the teaching of the Holy Spirit through Peter 
 (Acts 2:38), in interpretation of the command 
 of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:19), 
 that the sacrament of baptism is indeed "an 
 outward and visible sign of an inward and 
 spiritual grace"; and that that "inward and 
 spiritual grace" is "the baptism in (or "into") 
 the Holy Spirit," which effects "a death unto 
 sin, and a new birth unto righteousness"; or, 
 in another word, salvation, through faith, "in 
 (or "into") the Name of the Father, and of 
 the Son, and of the Holy Spirit"; wliich 
 "Name" is "the Name of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ"! 
 
72 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 THE ONLY 
 SAVING "NAME " 
 
 Furthermore, the Name of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ is "the Only Name" in which salvation 
 may be had, and into which baptism may be 
 Scripturally and appropriately administered as 
 a sign of that salvation. This fact is clearly 
 set forth in Acts 4:1-12, as follows: "And 
 as they (Peter and John) spake unto the people, 
 the priests, and the captain of the temple, and 
 the Sadducees came upon them: being sore 
 troubled because they taught the people, and 
 preached in Jesus the resurrection from the 
 dead. And they laid hands on them, and put 
 them in prison unto the next day: for it was 
 eventide. But many of them that heard the 
 Word believed: and the nmnber of men became 
 about five thousand. And it came to pass on 
 the morrow, that their rulers, and elders 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 73 
 
 and scribes, and Annas the high priest, and 
 Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as 
 many as were of the kindred of the high priest, 
 were gathered together in Jerusalem. 
 
 "And when they had set them in the midst, 
 they asked, In what power, or in what name, 
 have ye done this? Then Peter, filled with the 
 Holy Spirit, said unto them: Ye rulers of the 
 people, and elders, if we this day be examined 
 as to the good deed done to the impotent man, 
 IN what means he is made whole; be it known 
 unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, 
 that IN the Name of [the Lord] Jesus Christ 
 of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God 
 raised from the dead, even in Him doth this 
 man stand here before you whole. "This is 
 THE STONE which was set at naught by you 
 the builders, which became the head of the 
 corner. 
 
 "Neither is there salvation (in fact, or 
 sj-mbolically in the sacrament of baptism) in 
 any other; for there is none other Name under 
 heaven given among men wherein ye must be 
 saved." 
 
74 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 AN UNESCAPABLE DEDUCTION 
 
 In view of the Holy Spirit's teaching, 
 through Peter, as set forth above, "the Name 
 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit" is, beyond all question, "the Name of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ"! 
 
 And it is well that such is the fact, for, 
 otherwise, there never would have been a 
 Divinely valid baptism — so far as "the Name" 
 used as a "baptismal formula" is concerned — 
 in the case of any person who has ever been 
 baptized in the words: "in (or "into") the 
 Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
 the Holy Spirit"! 
 
 The only thing that can, or does. Divinely 
 validate baptism administered in those words is 
 the fact that such baptism is administered 
 through a parabolic formula into the Name of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ! 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 75 
 
 PRE-PENTECOSTAL BAPTISM 
 
 But baptism in those words — "in (or "into") 
 the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and 
 of the Holy Spirit" — was never administered 
 by the apostles in, or by the Church of, the 
 Apostolic Age, so far as the New Testament 
 bears record, as already shown; and for the 
 now obvious reason that baptism in those words 
 is administered according to a pre-Pentecostal 
 parabolic "baptismal formula"; a pre-Pente- 
 costal literal interpretation of that "formula"; 
 and, consequently, according to a pre-Pente- 
 costal interpretation of "the Name" and 
 "Personality" of the Triune God; and at the 
 expense of the true Pentecostal interpretation 
 of "the Name" and "Personality" of the Triune 
 God; Who, according to the latter interpreta- 
 tion, is inclusive of, and fully incarnate in, the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. (See Acts 2:36-39; II. 
 Corinthians 5:19 and Colossians 2:9.) In other 
 words, baptism administered in the words: "in 
 (or "into") the Name of the Father, and of the 
 Son, and of the Holy Spirit," is administered at 
 
76 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 the cost of that open and complete baptismal 
 confession of the Supreme Deity of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ that was invariably accorded Him 
 in all baptisms of the Apostolic Age; and that 
 is, and will be, accorded Him when the Christian 
 believer is baptized openly into His Name! 
 
 A LOGICAL CONCLUSION 
 
 Thus has it been shown, "according to the 
 Scriptures," that baptism administered in the 
 words: "in (or "into" )the Name of the Father, 
 and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" is clearly 
 and undoubtedly pre-Pentecostal ! In view of 
 the premises, any other conclusion is both 
 Scripturally and logically impossible! 
 
 This conclusion is further emphasized and 
 confirmed by the fact that the words "the Name 
 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Spirit" have been clearly shown to be parabolic 
 — possessing both an outer, or apparent, and an 
 inner, or hidden, meaning; this is proven by the 
 fact that they refer, first, to an unstated 
 "Name"; and, second, to "Three Divine Per- 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 77 
 
 sons" — "the Father, and the Son, and the 
 Holy Spirit"— to Whom that "Name" belongs, 
 and Whom it includes. 
 
 yiie fact of an inner, or liidden, meaning 
 — common to all of the parables, or parabolic 
 teachings, of the Lord Jesus Christ — clearly 
 implies a further, and consequently future, 
 revelation of the unstated "Name." 
 
 That revelation, as has been herein shown, 
 was given by the Lord Jesus Christ, through the 
 Holy Spirit, on the day of Pentecost; reveal- 
 ing the fact that "the Name of the Father, and 
 of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" is "the 
 Name of the Lord Jesus Christ." The fact 
 that this great truth, as herein disclosed, has 
 not been recognized by, or known to, the 
 Christian Church since the Apostolic Age is 
 proof positive that the knowledge thereof was 
 lost to the Church and to the world at, or 
 about, the close of the Apostohc Age! 
 
 It also now appears that the Jews of the 
 Apostolic Age understood that it was "God 
 ("the Father") in Christ" ("the Son") (II. 
 Corinthians 5:19) Who was preached to them, 
 
78 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 "in the Holy Sj^irit sent down from heaven" 
 (I. Peter 1:12); and, being so interpreted, 
 monotheists as they were, they could consist- 
 ently, and did, accept Him "in Whom dwelleth 
 all the fulness (or "completeness") of the God- 
 head (or "Divine Personality") bodily," as 
 their Christ, their Saviour, and their Lord: and 
 in every actual case recorded, where "the bap- 
 tismal Name" or "formula" used is given, were 
 baptized into His Name! 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 79 
 
 "This I have often said and now say it 
 again, that when I am dead it may be thought 
 of and men may learn to avoid all teachers as 
 sent and driven of the devil who set up to talk 
 and preach about God simple and sundered 
 from Jesus Christ. 
 
 "If thou wouldst go straight to God and 
 surely apprehend Him, so as to find in Him 
 mercy and strength, never let thyself be 
 persuaded to seek Him elsewhere than in the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 "In Christ begin thy art and study, in Him 
 let it abide firm, and wherever else thy own 
 reason and thinking or any other man's would 
 lead thee, shut thine eyes and say, I must not, 
 I will not, know any other God than in my 
 Lord Jesus Christ." — Martin Luther. 
 
80 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 THE SOLUTION OF 
 "THE MYSTERY OF GOD" 
 
 Ever since the Apostolic Age Christian the- 
 ologians have unsuccessfully endeavored to fully 
 explain how "the Three Divine Persons" — "the 
 Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit" — "in 
 the Godhead" can be "Named" by, possess, and 
 be included in One "Name": which is "the Name 
 of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 
 Spirit." 
 
 HERE IS 
 
 "THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF" 
 
 "That they may know 
 THE MYSTERY OF GOD IN CHRIST, 
 IN WHOM 
 
 are all the treasures 
 
 of wisdom and knowledge hidden." 
 
 "For IN HIM 
 
 dwellcth ALL the fulness 
 
 of THE GODHEAD bodily." 
 
 Colossians 2 : 2, 9 
 
 (ancient reading). 
 
 There are "Three Divine Persons" — "the 
 Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit" — in 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 81 
 
 the Godliead: and They are "Named" by, pos- 
 sess, and are included in One "Name": First: by 
 being of "One Divine Essence" (or "Name") ; 
 and, Second: by being of, and incarnate in. One 
 Divine-Human Person (Who is "the Son" of 
 "the Three Divine Persons"), and Whose 
 "Name" (or "Divine Essence"), of the One 
 Divine-Human Triune Personality, is One! 
 
 And as that "Name" of "the Three Divine 
 Persons of One Divine Essence (or "Name")" 
 is Three "Names" in One "Name," the 
 Three "Names" in One "Name" being clearly 
 and unmistakably the combined "Names" of 
 "the Three Divine Persons of One Divine 
 Essence (or "Name")" of and incarnate in 
 that One Divine-Human Triune Personality, 
 the solution of "the Mystery of God" — of 
 how Three Divine Persons, "the Father, and 
 the Son, and the Holy Spirit," of One Divine 
 Essence (or "Name"), can be of, and in, and 
 form One Divine Triune Personality with One 
 Triune "Name" — is hereby and herein restored 
 to the knowledge of men: that, at last, "all men 
 may know the Lord from the least to the 
 
82 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 greatest of them"; and that such knowledge 
 may prove indeed to be the saving knowledge 
 of "God in Christ" to untold millions of now 
 unsaved souls "for whom Christ died," and 
 make possible a world-wide recognition of 
 "our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ" at 
 His coming "glorious appearing"! Titus 2:13. 
 R.V. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 83 
 
 "And through the Word Himself who 
 
 HAD been made VISIBLE AND PALPABLE, WAS THE 
 
 Father shown forth; although all did not 
 equally believe in him : but all saw the 
 Father in the Son; for the Father is the 
 
 INVISIBLE OF the SoN, BUT THE SoN THE VISIBLE 
 
 OF THE Father. And for this reason all 
 SPAKE WITH Christ when He was present 
 (upon earth), and they named Him God." 
 Irenaeus, "Against Heresies/^ 
 in "The Apostolic Fathers." 
 
84 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 "THOU, O LORD, ART 
 
 OUR FATHER." 
 
 (Isaiah 63:16.) 
 
 "HOLY FATHER, keep them IN THY NAME 
 
 which THOU hast given ME, that they 
 
 may be ONE, even as WE «r^." 
 
 (John 17:11. R. V.) 
 
 "I AM come IN MY FATHER'S NAME." 
 
 (John 5:43.) 
 
 "Blessed is HE 
 
 that Cometh 
 
 IN THE NAME of 
 
 THE LORD." 
 
 (Matthew 21:9.) 
 
 "ONE LORD, 
 
 ONE FAITH, 
 
 ONE BAPTISM." 
 
 (Ephesians 4:5.) 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 85 
 
 "His acts have proven His Deity. 
 
 JESUS IS JEHOVAH! 
 and therefore we sing unto HIM 
 
 as THE LORD." 
 
 Spurgeon's "Treasury of David." 
 
 Psalm 98: in Vol. 4. Page 371. 
 
86 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 THE FINAL AND COMPLETED PROOF 
 
 —"ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES"— 
 
 of THE FOREGOING INTERPRETATION of 
 
 "THE NAME of THE FATHER, 
 and of THE SON, and of THE HOLY SPIRIT" 
 
 "When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, 
 He will guide you into all the Truth. . . . 
 He shall glorify Me: for He shall take 
 of JMine, and shall declare it unto you. 
 All things that the Father hath are JMine: 
 therefore said I, that He shall take of 
 Mine, and shall declare it unto you." 
 John 16:13-15. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 87 
 
 "THE NAME" OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 
 THE TRIUNE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS 
 CHRIST, IS "THE NAME" of "THE FATHER, 
 and of THE SON, and of THE HOLY SPIRIT"; 
 BECAUSE IT IS "THE NAME" OF THE 
 DIVINE-TRIUNE PERSONALITY OF, AND 
 INCARNATE IN, HIM WHO IS "THE SON OF 
 GOD" AND "THE SON OF MAN"; AND THAT 
 TRIUNE "NAME" CONSISTS OF THE COM- 
 BINED PERSONAL "NAMES" OF "THE 
 FATHER, and of THE SON, and of THE 
 HOLY SPIRIT." 
 
 "THE NAME" of "THE FATHER." 
 
 THE FIRST NAME IN THE TRIUNE NAME 
 
 OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS "THE NAME" 
 
 OF "THE LORD." 
 
88 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 THIS NAME 
 
 — in this connection — 
 
 IS THE PERSONAL "NAME" OF "THE FATHER" 
 IN THE TRIUNE "NAME" OF THE LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST, EVEN AS "THE DIVINE 
 PERSON" OF "THE FATHER" IS INCLUSIVE 
 OF, AND INCARNATE IN, THE DIVINE- 
 HUMAN TRIUNE PERSONALITY OF THE 
 LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 "I AM IN THE FATHER, AND THE FATHER 
 IN ME." 
 
 John 14:10. 
 
 SCRIPTURE PROOFS 
 
 "THEY SHALL KNOW THAT MY NAME IS 
 THE LORD." 
 
 Jeremiah 16:21. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 89 
 
 In Isaiah 63:16 (A. V.) the prophet 
 declares: "Thou, O Lord, art our Father, 
 our Redeemer: Thy Name is from everlasting." 
 
 In these Divinely inspired words the prophet 
 declares that the "Lord" is "our Father": or 
 "the Father" of His people. 
 
 There can be but one logical deduction 
 drawn from this statement: namely, that as 
 "the Lord" is "the Father," "the Name" of 
 "the Father" is "the Name" of "the Lord." 
 
 In John 17:11, 12 (R. Y.) the Lord Jesus 
 Christ prays: "Holy Father, keep them in 
 Thy Name which Thou hast given Me, that 
 they may be one, even as We are. While I 
 was with them, I kept them in Thy Name 
 which Thou hast given JNIe ; and I guarded them, 
 and not one of them perished, but the son of 
 perdition: that the Scripture might be ful- 
 filled." 
 
 In these words of prayer to "the Father," 
 the Lord Jesus Christ states that "the Father" 
 has given His "Name" — which is obviously 
 "The Name" of "the Lord"— to His Son, the 
 Lord Jesiis Christ. 
 
90 WHAT IS "the na:me" 
 
 In John 5:43 the Lord Jesus Christ 
 declares: "I am come in i\Iy Father's Name, 
 and ye receive ]Me not: if another shall come in 
 his own name, him ye will receive." 
 
 In these Divine words the Lord Jesus 
 Christ declares that He comes (literally bear- 
 ing, and spiritually included) in His Father's 
 "Name": which, as has been shown, is "the 
 Name" of "the Lord" ("the Name" of "the 
 Lord" being, in a literal sense, the Personal 
 designation: and, in a spiritual sense, "the 
 Person," or "Spirit," of "the Lord"). 
 
 In JNIatthew 21:9 it is stated that the multi- 
 tudes declared: "Blessed is He that cometh 
 in the Name of the Lord." 
 
 In this last quotation the attending multi- 
 tudes welcomed the Lord Jesus Christ upon 
 the occasion of His triumphal entry into the 
 City of Jerusalem. 
 
 Let the reader now note the remarkably 
 significant fact that the words just quoted from 
 Matthew 21:9 — as they also, in substance, 
 appear in Mark 11:9; Luke 19:38 and John 
 12:13 — are, in turn, a quotation from Psalm 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 91 
 
 118:26 (A. v.), in which "the Name" of "the 
 Lord" is substituted for "the Name" of 
 "Jehovah" (as it is likewise substituted, as a 
 rule, throughout the Authorized Version of the 
 Old Testament, according to the usage of 
 the equivalent words in the Greek of the 
 Septuagint, which was "the Scriptures" of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles!). 
 
 (Let it, also, now be noted that He who — 
 in the 9th verse of the 21st chapter of JNIatthew 
 — is declared to have come to Jerusalem "in 
 the Name of the Lord" had previously — as 
 recorded in the 3rd verse of the same chapter 
 of IMatthew — declared Himself to be "the 
 Lord"! 
 
 Thus is it shown that He who came "in the 
 Name of the Lord" not only came as the 
 representative, and with the authority, of 
 "the Lord"; but that He came literally bearing, 
 and spiritually included "in the Name of the 
 Lord.") 
 
 In John 10:25 the Lord Jesus Christ 
 declares: "The works that I do in My Father's 
 Name, thev bear witness of Me." 
 
92 WHAT IS ' THE NAME ' 
 
 That the Lord Jesus Christ again refers to 
 "the Name" of "the Lord" as His Father's 
 "Name" is clearly shown in Mark 5:18-20, 
 where it is stated: "And when He was come into 
 the ship, he that had been possessed with the 
 devil prayed that he might be with Him. How- 
 beit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, 
 Go home to thy friends and tell them what 
 great things the Lord (meaning "the Lord" 
 God: See Luke 8:39) hath done for thee, and 
 hath had compassion on thee. 
 
 "And he departed, and began to publish in 
 Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for 
 him: and all men did marvel." 
 
 In Matthew 8:2, 3 it is stated: "And, be- 
 hold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, 
 saying. Lord, if Thou wilt. Thou canst make 
 me clean. And Jesus put forth Flis hand, 
 and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean." 
 
 In this case the Lord Jesus Christ, respond- 
 ing to a prayer for healing offered to Him in 
 His .Father's "Name"— "the Name" of "the 
 Lord": or to the Father in His "Name," or 
 "Person" — performed in His Father's "Name" 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 93 
 
 the mighty work of healing a man of that 
 awful disease the leprosy: that thereby "the 
 Father" might "be glorified in (the Person of) 
 the Son" (See John 14:13). 
 
 In John 14:10 we read the words of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ in perfect confirmation, and 
 explanation, of this interpretation: "Believest 
 thou not that I am in the Father, and the 
 Father in Me? The words that I speak unto 
 you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that 
 dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." 
 
 In Luke 10:21, 22 we read: "In that hour 
 Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I thank 
 Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, 
 that Thou hast hid these tilings from the wise 
 and prudent, and hast revealed them unto 
 babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good 
 in Thy sight. 
 
 "All things are delivered to Me of My Father: 
 and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the 
 Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, 
 and he to whom the Son wills to reveal 
 Him." 
 
 When it is clearly shown that "the Lord" 
 
94 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 is "the Father"; and that, consequently, "the 
 Name" of "the Father" is "the Name" of "the 
 Lord": and when the Lord Jesus Christ, in 
 His jDrayer to "the Father," declares that to 
 Him "the Father" has given His "Name": 
 and when the Lord Jesus Christ states that He 
 came in His Father's "Name"; and it is, 
 subsequently, stated that the Lord Jesus 
 Christ came "in the Name of the Lord," it 
 certainly is clearly and positively proved, both 
 by the statements of the Lord Jesus Christ and 
 of the Holy Spirit through the Written Word 
 of God, that "the Name" of "the Lord" given 
 to, possessed by, and included in the Triune 
 "Name" of the Lord Jesus Christ is His 
 Father's "Name." 
 
 And, furthermore, when it is shown, by His 
 own testimony, that the Lord Jesus Christ did 
 all of His mighty works in His Father's 
 "Name" — which, in this connection also, is shown 
 to be "the Name" of "the Lord"; and when 
 it is, also, shown by His own testimony that 
 His mighty works were not only done in his 
 Father's "Name," but by His Father Himself, 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 95 
 
 — Who, spiritually including, and dwelling 
 within, His Son, in and through His Son did 
 His mighty works — it is clearly and positively 
 proved that not only is "the Name" of "the 
 Lord" in and of the Triune "JVaime" of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ "the Name" of "the 
 Father," but, also, that "the Divine Person" 
 of "the Father" was, and is, inclusive of, and 
 incarnate in, the Divine-Human Triune Person- 
 ahty of the Lord Jesus Christ! 
 
 Let it, further, be noted that in the prayer 
 of the Lord Jesus Christ to "the Father" — 
 already quoted — He calls "the Father" 
 "Lord"; and, by so doing, addresses "the 
 Father" as, and in "the Name" of, "the Lord." 
 JNIany other Scripture proofs are available to 
 support the teaching that "the Name" of "the 
 Father" is "the Name" of "the Lord"; but the 
 proofs already submitted appear to establish 
 the fact beyond all reasonable doubt. 
 
96 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 THEREFORE "THE NAME" OF "THE 
 LORD"— in this connection— IS THE PERSONAL 
 "NAME" OF "THE FATHER" IN THE TRIUNE 
 "NAME" OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, 
 EVEN AS "THE DIVINE PERSON" OF "THE 
 FATHER" IS INCLUSIVE OF, AND INCAR- 
 NATE IN, THE DIVINE-HUMAN TRIUNE 
 PERSONALITY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 :m 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 97 
 
 "Not as the painters of the Trinity child- 
 ishly represented on the one side the Father 
 as an old man, and apart from Him, on the 
 other side, God the Son. 
 
 "The Son is ever the visible face of the 
 Father — rather could we see a man indepen- 
 dently of, or apart from, his face, than we can 
 see God independently of, or apart from. His 
 Son, who is His face." — Zeller. 
 
 "Thus, dear ministerial brethren, accustom 
 yourselves not to the fatal God and Christ — 
 but to the Apostolical 'God in Chinst.' " 
 
 Stier^s "The Words of the Lord Jesus." 
 
 Vol. 2, Part 1, page 350. 
 
98 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son 
 is given; and the government shall be upon 
 His shoulder; and His Name shall be called 
 (or He shall be) Wondekful, Counsellor, 
 The Mighty God, The E\terlasting Father, 
 The Prince or Peace/^ 
 
 Isaiah 9:6. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 99 
 
 "THE NAME" of "THE SON," 
 
 THE SECOND NAME IN THE TRIUNE NAME 
 
 OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IS "THE NAME" 
 
 OF "JESUS." 
 
 THIS NAME 
 
 — in this connection — 
 
 IS THE PERSONAL "NAME" OF "THE SON" 
 IN THE TRIUNE "NAME" OF THE LORD JESUS 
 CHRIST, EVEN AS "THE DIVINE-HUMAN 
 PERSON" OF "THE SON" IS, IN HIS DIVINITY, 
 INCARNATE IN, AND, IN HIS HUMANITY, 
 THE INCARNATION OF, THE DIVINE-HUMAN 
 TRIUNE PERSONALITY OF THE LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 SCRIPTURE PROOFS 
 
 In Luke 1 :31, 32, 35 the angel Gabriel declares 
 to the Virgin Mary, of her Divinely conceived 
 Son: "And [thou] shalt call His Name Jesus. 
 . . . He shall be called the Son of the Most 
 High. . . . The Son of God." 
 
 In Matthew 3:16, 17 it is stated: "And 
 Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straight- 
 
100 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 way out of the water; and, lo, the heavens 
 were opened unto Him; and He saw the Spirit 
 of God descending hke a dove, and lighting 
 upon Him: and lo a Voice from heaven, 
 saying, This is My beloved Son, in Whom I 
 am well pleased." 
 
 In John 1:29, 34 we read: "And on the 
 morrow he (John the Baptist) seeth Jesus 
 coming unto him, and saith. Behold, the Lamb 
 of God, that taketh away the sin of the world! 
 . . . And I have seen, and have borne witness 
 that this is the Son of God." 
 
 In Hebrews 4:14 it is said: "Seeing then 
 that we have a great high priest, that is passed 
 into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us 
 hold fast our profession." 
 
 In I. John 5:^^ the question is asked and 
 answered: "Who is he that overcometh the world, 
 but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of 
 God?" 
 
 In I. John 4:15 John the apostle states: 
 "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son 
 of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God." 
 
 In John 20:30, 31 it is said: "And many 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 101 
 
 signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His 
 disciples, which are not written in this book. 
 But these are written, that ye might believe 
 that Jesus is the Son of God; and that 
 believing ye might have life in His Name." 
 
 In Matthew 16:13-17 we read: "When 
 Jesus came unto the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, 
 He asked His disciples, Whom do men say 
 that I the Son of Man am? 
 
 "And they said. Some say that Thou art 
 John the Baptist; some Elijah, and some 
 Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. 
 
 "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that 
 I am? 
 
 "Simon-Peter answered and said, Thou art 
 the Christ, the Son of the living God. 
 
 "And Jesus answered and said unto him. 
 Blessed art thou, Simon-Bar-Jonah; for flesh 
 and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but 
 My Father which is in heaven." 
 
 In John 19:5-7 we read: "Then came 
 Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, 
 and the purple robe. And Pilate saith 
 unto them, Behold the man! When the 
 
102 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 chief priests therefore and officers saw Him, 
 they cried out, saying, Crucify Him, 
 crucify Him! Pilate saith unto them, 
 Take ye Him, and crucify Him; for I find 
 no fault in Him. The Jews answered him, 
 We have a law, and by our law He ought 
 to die, because He made Himself the Son of 
 God." 
 
 In the foregoing quotations we have the 
 testimony of "the Father," at Jesus' baptism; 
 of "the Son," Jesus Himself, in corrobora- 
 tion of Peter's testimony; of "the Holy 
 Spirit," through Peter; of the angel Gabriel, 
 before Jesus' birth of the Virgin Mary; of 
 John the Baptist, at Jesus' baptism; of John 
 the apostle, in his Gospel and Epistles; of 
 the writer of Hebrews; and of the Jews, in 
 testifying of Jesus' own statement that he was 
 the Son of God; that Jesus "the Son of Man" 
 is "the Son of God." 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 103 
 
 THEREFORE "THE NAME" OF "JESUS"— 
 in this connection— IS THE PERSONAL "NAME" 
 OF "THE SON" IN THE TRIUNE NAME 
 OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, EVEN AS 
 "THE DIVINE-HUMAN PERSON" OF "THE 
 SON" IS, IN HIS DIVINITY, INCARNATE 
 IN, AND, IN HIS HUMANITY, THE 
 INCARNATION OF, THE DIVINE-HUMAN 
 TRIUNE PERSONALITY OF THE LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
104 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 v^v-- 
 
 "NOW THE LORD 
 
 [JESUS, THE CHRIST] 
 
 IS THE SPIRIT." 
 
 II. Corinthians 3:17 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 105 
 
 "THE NAME" of "THE HOLY SPIRIT," 
 
 THE THIRD NAME IN THE TRIUNE NAME 
 
 OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IS "THE NAME" 
 
 OF "CHRIST." 
 
 THIS NAME 
 
 — in this connection — 
 
 IS THE PERSONAL "NAME" OF "THE HOLY 
 SPIRIT" IN THE TRIUNE "NAME" OF THE 
 LORD JESUS CHRIST, EVEN AS "THE 
 DIVINE PERSON" OF "THE HOLY SPIRIT" 
 IS OF, INCARNATE IN, AND PROCEEDS 
 FROM THE DIVINE-HUMAN TRIUNE PER- 
 SONALITY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 SCRIPTURE PROOFS 
 
 In John 14:26 the Lord Jesus Christ says: 
 "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, Whom 
 the Father will send in My Name, He shall 
 teach you all things, and bring all things to 
 your remembrance, whatsoever I have said 
 unto you." 
 
 As has already been shown — in the inter- 
 
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 pretation of "the Name" of "the Father" as 
 "the Name" of "the Lord"— the Lord Jesus 
 Christ came (literallj^ bearing, and sjiiritually 
 included) in His Father's "Name": which — 
 as has been clearly and positively shown — is 
 "the Name" of "the Lord" ("the Name" of 
 "the Lord" being, in a literal sense, the Personal 
 designation: and, in a spiritual sense, "the 
 Person" or "Spirit" of "the Lord"). 
 
 In the above quotation, from John 14:26, 
 the Lord Jesus Christ declares that "the 
 Father" will send "the Holy Spirit" (liter- 
 ally bearing, and spiritually included) in 
 His "Name": which — in this connection — as 
 shall be clearly and positively shown "accord- 
 ing to the Scriptures" — is collectively expressed 
 in the Messianic "Name" of "the Christ," or 
 of "Christ" ("the Name" of "the Christ," or of 
 "Christ," being, in a literal sense, the collective 
 Messianic Personal designation: and, in a spirit- 
 ual sense, the collective Messianic "Person," or 
 "Spirit," of "the Christ," or of "Christ"). 
 
 For as "the Lord" is "the Father," and as 
 "Jesus" is "the Son," and both are united in 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 107 
 
 "the Name" and in "the Personahty" of 
 "the Lord Jesus, the Christ," or of "Christ" 
 (John 10:22-38); so "the Spirit of the 
 Father" (Matthew 10:20), and "the Spirit 
 of His Son" (Galatians 4:6), are essentially 
 united in "the Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 4:4), 
 Who comes in "the Name" of, and is "the 
 Spirit" of, "the Lord Jesus, the Christ," or of 
 "Christ." 
 
 The Scriptural accuracy of this interpre- 
 tation is clearly shown in the words of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ recorded in John 14:23: 
 "If a man love Me, he will keep My words: 
 and My Father will love him, and We ("the 
 Father"— "the Lord," and "the Son"— "Jesus," 
 in "the Spirit" of "the Lord Jesus, the 
 Christ," or of "Christ") will come unto him, 
 and make Our abode with him." 
 
 (Essentially "the Father is Spirit, the Son 
 is Spirit, and Spirit is the unity of the Father 
 and the Son." — "Pulpit Commentary," St. John, 
 page 170.) 
 
 ("The Name Christ embodied (and em- 
 bodies) in itself the Father who gave, and 
 
108 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 the Son who received, the unction of the Holy 
 Spirit."— Basil, "de Spiritu S.") 
 
 Therefore in the collective Messianic "Name" 
 of "Christ" is summed up and included all 
 of the Spiritual completeness of the God- 
 head (or "Divine Personality") ; and that is 
 "the Name" in which "the Holy Spirit" 
 comes to all of God's children: and in J'the 
 Name" of "Christ" He dwells in everv believ- 
 
 ing heart, as all true Christians well know! 
 
 Paul gives expression to that experience in 
 Galatians 2:20: "Christ (obviously in "the 
 Spirit") liveth in me." 
 
 And in Colossians 1:27 he states: "God 
 would make known among the Gentiles what 
 is the riches of the glory of this mystery: which 
 is Christ (in "the Spirit") in j^ou, the hope of 
 glory." 
 
 Again, in Romans 8:9-11, Paul states: 
 "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, 
 if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. 
 But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, 
 he is none of His. But if Christ is in vou, the 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 109 
 
 body is dead because of sin: but the spirit is 
 life because of righteousness." 
 
 In the Bible Commentary, New Testament, 
 Vol. 3, page 150, it is stated: "It is clear from 
 the connection that 'the Spirit of Christ' is 
 the same as 'the Spirit of God,' i.e., 'the Holy 
 Spirit,' Who is not only sent by 'Christ,' but 
 is so essentially one with 'Christ,' that His 
 indwelhng is, in the next clause, described as 
 'Christ in you.' It furthermore appears, that 
 to have 'the Spirit of Christ' (verse 9) is to 
 have 'Christ' Himself dwelling within the 
 heart. (Compare Ephesians 3:16, 17: 'To be 
 strengthened with might by His Spirit in the 
 inner man, that Christ may dwell in your 
 hearts by faith.') " 
 
 Peter bears no uncertain testimony in his 
 identification of "the Holy Spirit" with "the 
 Name" and "the Spirit" of "Christ"; as may 
 be noted in I. Peter 1:10, 11: "Concerning 
 which salvation the prophets sought and 
 searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace 
 that should come unto you; searching what 
 time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ 
 
110 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 whicli was in them did point unto when He 
 testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ (of 
 "the Spirit of Christ" incarnate) and the 
 glories that should follow." 
 
 In these words Peter actually names "the 
 Holy Spirit" "the Spirit of Christ"! 
 
 "THE SPIRIT" OF REGENERATION 
 
 "The Spirit" of Regeneration (or of "the 
 New Birth") 'is undoubtedly "the Spirit" of 
 "Christ," or "Christ" in "the Spirit": as note 
 John 3:5, where we read: "Except a man be 
 born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter 
 into the Kingdom of God." 
 
 "For" — as stated in Galatians 3:27 — "as many 
 of you as have been baptized into Christ (into 
 "the Name" and "the Spirit" of "Christ") have 
 put on Christ": 
 
 "Therefore" — as stated in II. Corinthians 
 5:17 — "if any one be in Christ, (having "put 
 on Christ") the?^ is a new creation; old 
 things have passed away; behold, all things 
 have become new." 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 111 
 
 Paul makes this statement immediately after 
 stating in II. Corinthians 5:16: "Though we 
 have known Christ according to the flesh, yet 
 now henceforth know we Him so no more." 
 "Christ" in "the Spirit" certainly appears to be 
 Paul's thought here! 
 
 In I. Corinthians 12:13 we read: "For in 
 one Spirit (in "the Spirit" of "Christ") were 
 we all baptized into one body." 
 
 "So" — as stated in Romans 12:5 — "we, being 
 many, are one body in Christ (in "the Name" 
 and in "the Spirit" of "Christ") and every one 
 members one of another." 
 
 Again, Paul, "steward of the mysteries of 
 God," "according to the wisdom given unto 
 him," says, in Colossians 1:21-24: "And you 
 who once were alienated and enemies in your 
 minds by wicked works, yet now hath He 
 reconciled in the body of his flesh ("God was in 
 Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself": 
 II. Corinthians 5:19) through death, to present 
 you holy and unblamable and unreprovable 
 in His sight: if indeed ye abide in the faith 
 grounded and settled, and are not moved away 
 
112 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 from the hope of the Gospel which ye have 
 heard, which was preached in the whole creation 
 under the heavens: whereof I Paul am made 
 a minister: who now rejoice in my sufferings 
 for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the 
 afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for His body's 
 sake, which is the Church." 
 
 It is the Church of Christ because it is the 
 Collective Body of Christ on earth — the Col- 
 lective Temple of Christ — indwelt by "the 
 Spirit" of "Christ": Who is "the Holy 
 Spirit," coming and dwelling in His Church in 
 "the Name" and in "the Spirit" of "Christ." 
 
 "The Spirit" of "Christ" is of, incarnate in, 
 and proceeds from the Glorified Body of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ on high: from where, "by 
 the right hand of God exalted, and having 
 received from the Father the promise of the 
 Holy Spirit," He pours (or "breathes"?) forth 
 His Spirit— Who is "the Spirit" of the Triune 
 God — upon, within, and through all who believe 
 in and call upon His Holy "Name." 
 
 (All of this is, at least prophetically, illus- 
 trated and interpreted by the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 113 
 
 as previously mentioned; and as recorded in 
 John 20:21, 22.) 
 
 Therefore "Christ" in "the Spirit" is present 
 with His people on earth: for the Lord Jesus 
 Christ declares, in Matthew 18:20: "Where two 
 or three are gathered together in My Name 
 (in "the Name" and in "the Spirit" of "the 
 Lord Jesus, the Christ," or of "Christ"), there 
 am I in the midst of them." 
 
 Or, as stated — in words already quoted — 
 in John 14:23: "If a man love Me, he will 
 keep My words: and My Father will love him, 
 and We ("the Father"— "the Lord," and "the 
 Son"— "Jesus," in "the Spirit" of "the Lord 
 Jesus, the Christ," or of "Christ") will come 
 unto him, and make Our abode with him." 
 
 Let the reader note the fact that in these 
 words the Lord Jesus Christ speaks of the 
 collective coming of "the Father" and "the 
 Son," which coming is obviously in "the Spirit" 
 of "the Christ," or of "Christ." 
 
 While "the Name" of "Christ" is used in 
 Scripture to designate "the Christ" incarnate, 
 as well as "the Christ" in "the Spirit," it has 
 
114 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 been principally applied, as all Christians know, 
 — and with pecidiar significance, as has been 
 herein shown — since the day of Pentecost, to 
 "the Christ" Who, ever since that day, has been 
 present with His people on earth as "Christ" 
 in "the Spirit"! 
 
 Some one has truly said: "The Advent of 
 the Spirit was the Spiritual Advent of Christ": 
 or, as may be said with equal truth, the Advent 
 of "Christ" in "the Spirit"! 
 
 "The Christ" Who is with, and in the hearts 
 of, His people to-day is undoubtedh^ "Christ" 
 in "the Spirit": Who is "the Spirit" of 
 "Christ": Who is "the Holy Spirit": Who 
 includes "the Spirit of the Father" (Matthew 
 10:20), and "the Spirit of His Son" (Gala- 
 tians 4:6), and Who, "proceeding from the 
 Father" — "the Lord," in and through and 
 from "the Son" — "Jesus," comes to His children 
 in "the Name," and in "the Spirit," of "the Lord 
 Jesus, the Christ," or of "Christ." 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 11.5 
 
 THEREFORE "THE NAME" OF "CHRIST" 
 —in this connection— IS THE PERSONAL "NAME" 
 OF "THE HOLY SPIRIT" IN THE TRIUNE 
 "NAME" OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, EVEN 
 AS "THE DIVINE PERSON" OF "THE HOLY 
 SPIRIT" IS OF, INCARNATE IN, AND 
 PROCEEDS FROM THE DIVINE-HUMAN 
 TRIUNE PERSONALITY OF THE LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
116 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 "And every tongue — even of His enemies — 
 confess that Jesus Christ is Lord — Jehovah; 
 not now in the form of a sen^ant, but enthroned 
 IN the glory of God the Father." 
 
 Phil. 2:11. John Wesley. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 117 
 
 'THE NAME" of "THE LORD JESUS CHRIST" 
 
 is "THE NAME" of THE TRIUNE GOD 
 
 "He is The True God" 
 
 I. John 5:20. 
 
118 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 THEREFORE THE TRIUNE "NAME" OF "THE LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST" IS THE DIVINE TRIUNE "NAME" OF 
 THE INCARNATE TRIUNE GOD: BECAUSE IT IS THE 
 TRIUNE "NAME" OF THE DIVINE TRIUNE "PERSON- 
 ALITY" OF, INCARNATE IN, AND PROCEEDING FROM 
 HIM WHO IS "THE SON OF GOD" AND "THE SON OF 
 MAN'— "VERY GOD AND VERY MAN": AND THAT 
 DIVINE TRIUNE "PERSONALITY" CONSISTS OF "THE 
 FATHER"— "THE LORD"; AND OF "THE SON"— 
 "JESUS"; AND OF "THE HOLY SPIRIT"— WHO IS "THE 
 SPIRIT" OF "THE LORD JESUS, THE CHRIST," OR OF 
 "CHRIST"; AND WHO CONSEQUENTLY COMES IN, AND 
 BEARS, THE COLLECTIVE MESSIANIC "NAME" OF 
 "THE LORD JESUS": WHICH IS "THE NAME" OF "THE 
 CHRIST," OR OF "CHRIST." AND THESE "THREE 
 PERSONS OF ONE DIVINE ESSENCE (OR "NAME") IN 
 THE GODHEAD" WHILE ETERNALLY "THREE" IN 
 THE TRINITY, ARE, ALSO, ETERNALLY "ONE" IN 
 THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE TRIUNE "NAME" AND 
 THE DIVINE-HUMAN TRIUNE "PERSONALITY" OF 
 "THE LORD JESUS CHRIST." 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 119 
 
 "THE SECRET OF THE LORD" 
 REVEALED 
 
 This secret of the Divine Triune "Name" 
 and Divine-Human Triune "PersonaUty" of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ — "the Son of God" 
 and "the Son of Man"— "Very God and Very 
 Man": appears to have been possessed by the 
 apostles and the AjDostoHc Church, and to have 
 been lost to the Church and to the knowledge 
 of men at, or about, the close of the Apostolic 
 Age. 
 
 It is now — by the grace of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ — restored to the knowledge of His 
 Church, of His beloved people the Jews, and of 
 the World! 
 
 In words spoken and written of the mysteries 
 of God in ancient times, the writer hereof 
 would say: "But as for me, this secret is not 
 revealed to me for any wisdom that I have 
 more than any living" (Daniel 2:30), but that 
 
120 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 all men might "know the Lord, from the least 
 of them unto the greatest of them" (Jeremiah 
 31:34); and hecause "that in (or "mito"?) 
 THE Name of Jesus every knee should bow; 
 . . . ; and that every tongue should confess 
 that Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of 
 God the Father" (Pliihppians 2:10, 11); 
 "For the Son of INIan shall come in the glory 
 of His Father, with His angels; and then shall 
 He reward every man according to his works" 
 (Matthew 16:27). Therefore "the grace of 
 God hath appeared unto all men, teaching us 
 that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we 
 should live soberly and righteously and godly 
 in this present age; looking for that blessed hope 
 and appearing of the glory of our great God 
 and Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave Himself 
 for us ("God was in Christ, reconciling the world 
 unto Himself," II. Corinthians 5:19), that He 
 might purify unto Himself a people for His 
 own possession, zealous of good works." Titus 
 2:11-14. R. V. 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 121 
 
 "And we know that the Son of God is 
 come, and hath given us an understanding, 
 that we might know Him that is true, and 
 we are in Him that is true, in His Son 
 Jesus Christ. This ("He") is the True 
 God, and eternal life." 
 
 I. John .5:20. 
 
 "And after eight days again His disciples 
 were within, and Thomas with them; then, 
 came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in 
 the midst, and said Peace be unto you. 
 Then saith He to Thomas, Reach hither thy 
 finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither 
 thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be 
 not faithless, but believing. 
 
 "And Thomas answered and said unto Him, 
 My Lord and my God ! 
 
 "Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou 
 hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed 
 are they that have not seen, and yet have 
 believed." John 20:26-29. 
 
122 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 "THESE THINGS SAID ISAIAH, 
 
 WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY, AND 
 
 SPAKE OF HIM. " 
 
 John 12:41. 
 
 "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also 
 the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and hfted 
 up, and His train filled the temple. 
 
 "Above it stood the seraphim: each one had 
 six wings; with twain he covered his face, with 
 twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did 
 
 fly- 
 
 "And one cried unto another, and said. Holy, 
 Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole 
 earth is full of His glory." Isaiah 6:1-3. 
 
 "But though He (the Lord Jesus Christ) had 
 done so many miracles before them, yet they 
 believed not in Him: 
 
 "That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might 
 be fulfilled, which he spake: Lord, who hath 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 123 
 
 believed our report? and to whom is the arm of 
 the Lord revealed? 
 
 "Therefore they could not believe, because that 
 Isaiah had said again, He hath blinded their 
 eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should 
 not see with their eyes, nor understand with 
 their heart, and be converted (or "turn"), and 
 I should heal them. 
 
 "These things said Isaiah, when he saw His 
 glory, and spake of Him. 
 
 "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also 
 many believed in Him; but because of the 
 Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they 
 should be put out of the synagogue; for they 
 loved the praise of men more than the praise 
 of God." John 12:37-43. 
 
 In these words the Lord Jesus Christ is 
 clearly and positively identified with "the Lord 
 of hosts" of Isaiah's vision. 
 
 From Apostolic days orthodox Christian 
 belief has held that the glory of "the Lord of 
 hosts" of Isaiah's vision was none other than the 
 glory of the Triune God ! 
 
 "The glory of the Ever-Blessed Trinity ap- 
 
124 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 peared to Isaiah, when he heard the angelic 
 Holy, Holy, Holy (Isaiah 6:3) ; and the glory 
 of the Trinity is here called the glory 
 of Christ, because Christ is God. (Cyril). — 
 There is a remarkable resemblance to this 
 passage in the Book of Revelation (Rev. 4:8- 
 11, compared with Rev. 5:12-14), where the 
 glory ascribed to the Holy Trinity is ascribed 
 and paid to Christ; and is therefore a clear evi- 
 dence of His Divinity." — "Lange's Commen- 
 tary," John, page 397. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 125 
 
 "THE NAME" 
 
 "Among the creatures, 
 
 they and their names 
 
 are two different things : 
 
 but respecting the blessed God, 
 
 HIMSELF IS HIS NAME, 
 
 and HIS NAME IS HIMSELF." 
 
 In concluding this introductory study of 
 "THE NAME of the Father, and of the Son, 
 and of the Holy Spirit," the writer begs to 
 submit that he has been Divinely enabled, 
 "according to the Scriptures," to clearly and 
 conclusively show, in the' words of Jeremy 
 Taylor, that God "hath changed the Ineffable 
 Name into a Name utterable by man, and desir- 
 able by all the world: the majesty is all arrayed 
 in robes of mercy, the tetragkammaton, or 
 adorable mystery of the patriarchs, is made fit 
 for pronunciation and expression when it be- 
 cometh the Name of the Lord's Christ" : — which 
 is "THE NAME"— both hterally and spirit- 
 ually—of "THE LORD JESUS CHRIST." 
 
 It has also been shown that "THE NAME" 
 of "THE TRIUNE GOD"— which is "THE 
 
126 \\'HAT IS "the name" 
 
 NAISIE of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
 the Holy Spirit": those "THREE PERSOXS 
 OF ONE DIVINE ESSENCE (OR 
 "NAME") IN THE GODHEAD"— is 
 "THE NAME" both hterally and spiritually— 
 of "THE LORD JESUS CHRIST" para- 
 BOLICALLY EXPRESSED in a "baptismal formula" 
 given before the day of Pentecost, and subject 
 to the full and complete interpretation thereof 
 which was given that day by the Lord Jesus 
 Clii'ist in His Spirit (Who is "the Spirit of 
 Christ," and "the Spirit of Truth," and "the 
 Holy Spirit") — through the apostle Peter, 
 to "as many as received Him," "in the Spirit," 
 "even to them that believed in (or "into") His 
 Name"; and who were baptized into that 
 "Name" both in water and in "Spirit"; 
 and through that belief and baptism "into ("the 
 Name" and "the Spirit" of) Christ," they "put 
 on Christ": (both in "Name" and in "Spirit") ; 
 and "in the Name" and "in the Spirit" of "the 
 Lord Jesus, the Christ," or of "Christ," they 
 were made at one with — and "ahve unto" — 
 "God in Christ," and "with Christ in God." 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 127 
 
 "But ye were washed ("He saved us, by the 
 
 washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy 
 
 Spirit"), but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified, 
 
 IN THE NAME of THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 
 
 and IN THE SPIRIT of our GOD." 
 
 I. Corinthians 6:11. R. V. 
 
 Titus 3:5, A. V. and R. V. 
 
 "ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM." 
 Ephesians 4:5. 
 
 "For as many of you as have been baptized 
 into Christ have put on Christ." 
 
 Galatians 3:27 
 
 "Therefore if any one he in Christ, there 
 is a new creation: the old things are passed 
 away; behold, all things are become new: and 
 all things are of God, who hath reconciled us 
 to Himself through Jesus Christ, and hath given 
 to us the ministry of reconciliation: namely, 
 that GOD WAS IN CHRIST reconciling the 
 world unto Himself, not imputing their tres- 
 passes to them, and hath committed to us the 
 word of reconciliation." 
 
 II. Corinthians 5:17-19. 
 
128 WHAT IS "the name" 
 
 "Namely — The sum of which is God — the 
 whole Godhead, but more eminently God the 
 Father — was in Christ, reconciling the world — 
 which was before at enmity with God — to Him- 
 self, so taking away that enmity, which could no 
 otherwise be removed than by the blood of the 
 Son of God." 
 
 — John Wesley, in his "Explanatory 
 Notes upon The New Testament." Page 458. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 129 
 
 "I say the acknowledgment of God in Christ, 
 Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee 
 All problems in this earth and out of it. 
 And hath so far advanced thee to be wise." 
 
 — Robert Browning. 
 
130 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 "THE ONE FOUNDATION" 
 
 'For other foundation can no man lay 
 
 than that which is laid, 
 
 which is Jesus, the Christ." 
 
 I. Corinthians 3:11. 
 
 "There is one body, and one spirit, 
 
 even as also ye were called 
 
 in ONE HOPE of your calling; 
 
 ONE Lord, one faith, one baptism 
 
 ONE God and Father of all, 
 
 WHO is over all, and through all, and in all." 
 
 Ephesians 4:4-6 
 
 "The Church's one foundation 
 
 Is Jesus Christ her Lord; 
 She is His new creation 
 
 By water and the word. 
 From heaven He came and sought her 
 
 To be His holy bride; 
 With His own blood He bought her 
 
 And for her life He died. 
 
WHAT IS "the name" 131 
 
 "Elect from every nation, 
 
 Yet one o'er all the earth, 
 Her charter of salvation 
 
 One Lord, one faith, one birth. 
 One holy Name she blesses, 
 
 Partakes one holy food. 
 And to ONE HOPE she presses. 
 
 With every grace endued. 
 
 "Though with a scornful wonder 
 
 Men see her sore opprest. 
 By schisms rent asunder. 
 
 By heresies distrest; 
 Yet saints their watch are keeping, 
 
 Their cry goes up, "How long?" 
 And soon the night of weeping 
 
 Shall be the morn of song. 
 
 "Yet she on earth hath union 
 
 With God the three in one. 
 And mystic sweet communion 
 
 With those whose rest is won; 
 O happy ones and holy ! 
 
 Lord, give us grace that we 
 Like them, the meek and lowly. 
 
 On high may dwell with Thee." 
 
132 WHAT IS "the name' 
 
 THE WORDS OF THE LORD JESUS 
 CHRIST 
 
 "And now I am no more in the world, but 
 these are in the world, and I come to Thee. 
 Holy Father, keep them in Thy Name which 
 Thou hast given Me, that they may be ONE, 
 even as We are. 
 
 "Wliile I was with them, I kept them in Thy 
 Name which Thou hast given ]\Ie ; and I guarded 
 them, and not one of them perished, but the son 
 of perdition; that the Scripture might be ful- 
 filled. . . 
 
 "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them 
 also which shall believe in Me through their 
 word; that they all may be ONE: as Thou art 
 in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be ONE 
 in us : that the world may believe that Thou hast 
 sent Me." 
 
 John 17:11, 12, 20, 21. 
 
WHAT IS THE NAME" 133 
 
 "HE THAT SEETH ME SEETH HIM THAT 
 
 SENT ME." 
 
 John 12:45. 
 
 "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE." 
 
 John 10:30. 
 
 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
 the love of God ("which is in Christ Jesus 
 our Lord."), and the communion of the 
 Holy Spirit ("which He poured out 
 upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our 
 Saviour") , be with you all." 
 
 II. Corinthians 13:14. 
 Romans 8:39. 
 Titus 3:5, 6. 
 
 "We shall see Him," in our nature, 
 Seated on His lofty throne. 
 
 Loved, adored, by every creature. 
 Owned as God, and God alone." 
 

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