praise and the honour,
before a whole universe, of Him who has thus endued their weakness with
His own strength, and transmuted their corruptibility into His own
immortality. We are glorified in Christ in some partial, and, alas!
sinfully fragmentary, manner here; we shall be so perfectly in that day.
And when we are thus glorified in Him, then--wondrous thought!--even we
shall be able to manifest Him as glorious before some gazing eyes, which
without us would have seen Him as less fair. Dim, and therefore great
and blessed thoughts about what men may become are involved in such
words. The highest end, the great purpose of the Gospel and of all
God's dealings with us in Christ Jesus is to make us like our Lord. As
we have borne the image of the earthly we shall also bear the image of
the heavenly. 'We, beholding the glory, are changed into the glory.'

And that glorifying of men in Christ, which is the goal and highest end
of Christ's Cross and passion and of all God's dealings, is accomplished
only because Christ dwells in the men whom He glorifies. We read words
applying to His relation to His Father which need but to be transferred
to our relation to Him, in order to teach us high and blessed things
about this glorifying. The Father dwelt in Christ, therefore Christ was
glorified by the indwelling divinity, in the sense that His humanity was
made partaker of the divine glory, and thereby He glorified the divinity
that dwelt in Him, in the sense that He conspicuously displayed it
before the world as worthy of all admiration and love.

And, in like manner, as is the Son with the Father, participant of
mutual and reciprocal glorification, so is the Christian with Christ,
glorified in Him and therefore glorifying Him.

What may be involved therein of perfect moral purity, of enlarged
faculties and powers, of a bodily frame capable of manifesting all the
finest issues of a perfect spirit, it is not for us to say. These things
are great, being hidden; and are hidden because they are great. But
whatever may be the lofty heights of Christlikeness to which we shall
attain, all shall come from the indwelling Lord who fills us with His
own Spirit.

And, then, according to the great teaching here, this glorified
humanity, perfected and separated from all imperfection, and helped into
all symmetrical unfolding of dormant possibilities, shall be the
highest glory of Christ even in that day when He comes in His glory and
sits