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9. τὸ ὄνομα. So אABC, 17, Euseb Cyr. D2G2K2LP, most cursives, arm, Origen Euseb (alibi) Ath and many Greek fathers om τὸ. LTTr Alf (doubtfully) Ltft WH τὸ. Ell om. The case for omission is strong.
H. THE WORSHIP PAID TO JESUS CHRIST. (CH. Php 2:9)
“UPON this worship of Jesus Christ as we meet it in the apostolical age, [let us observe, that] it cannot be accounted for, and so set aside, as being part of an indiscriminating cultus of heavenly or supernatural beings in general. Such a cultus finds no place in the New Testament, except when it, or something very much resembling it, is expressly discountenanced. By the mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ the New Testament reaffirms the Sinaitic law which restricts worship to the Lord God Himself. St Peter will not sanction the self-prostrations of the grateful Cornelius lest Cornelius should think of him as more than human.… When St John fell at the feet of the angel in the Apocalypse … he was peremptorily checked on the ground that the angel too was only his fellow-slave, and that God was the one true Object of worship.… Certainly the New Testament does teach that we Christians have close communion with the blessed angels and with the sainted dead.… But the worship claimed for, and accepted by, and paid to, Jesus, stands out in the New Testament in the sharpest relief … not softened or shaded off by any instances of an inferior homage paid, whether legitimately or not, to created beings. We do not meet with any clear distinction between a primary and secondary worship, by which the force of the argument might have been more or less seriously weakened.”