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By tongue, not only every language, people, and nation is meant; because it is to be understood, as before particularized, of angels as well as men, for though angels properly, and by nature, want tongues, (as well as knees, which are both here joined, and must not be severed, in the worship given to Christ), yet in their manner of speaking to men, under an extraordinary dispensation, they may use them, (or that which is equivalent), 1Co_13:1; and, in a way proper to them, can
confess, or express, their adoration of Christ, Rev_7:9-12, either with delight, or by a forced subjection, Rev_6:16, and acknowledge that he is Lord, i.e. of glory, Rom_11:36 1Co_2:8 8:6, the Son of God, 2Co_4:5 Heb_1:2,4, having only power to command the soul and conscience, Jam_4:12, and to save, Heb_7:27, being Lord both of the dead and of the living, Rom_14:9.
To the glory of God the Father; some render, in the glory of the Father. Either in that the honour of Christ redoundeth to the honour of the Father, Pro_10:1, with Joh_5:23 Eph_1:6: or the Father doth most glorify the Son in his exaltation, who had most glorified him in his humiliation, Joh_12:28, with Joh_17:5,6.