128. The suffering on the cross completed the process of glorification (meaning the uniting of the Lord's divine-human nature to the divine nature of the Father). The Lord himself says so in the Gospels: "After Judas left, Jesus said, Now the Son of Humankind is glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and glorify him immediately" (John 13:31-32). Here glorification refers to both God the Father and the Son; it says "God is glorified in him and will glorify him in himself. " Clearly this means that they became united.

"Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that your Son may also glorify you" (John 17:1, 5). This form of expression occurs here because the uniting was reciprocal. As it says, the Father was in him and he was in the Father.

Jesus said, "'Now my soul is disturbed. ' And he said, 'Father, glorify your name. ' And a voice came out of heaven, 'I both have glorified it and will glorify it again'" (John 12:27-28). It says this because the uniting occurred in successive stages.

"Was it not fitting for Christ to suffer and enter into his glory?" (Luke 24:26). In the Word when "glory" is related to the Lord it means the divine truth united to divine goodness.

From these passages it is very clear that the Lord's human manifestation is divine.