What does this mean? Is it not this: If ye shall ask anything according to the quality of the life which I have manifested before you, for a name expresses or connotes the quality of one's life; thus, If ye shall ask anything according to the spirit which has actuated me, that will I do,—not the Father,—that the Father may be glorified, that is, may be "honored, ascribed glory to, exalted, adored, worshipped," in the Son. The Standard Dictionary gives us this as the definition of "glorify." We claim that we are to recognize the Father in the Son, and to honor, adore, and worship him in the Son. Is not Jesus evidently trying to give his disciples to understand that their prayers will be answered by himself directly, and hoping from this that they will perceive that He and the Father are one identical being?
Now here follow some statements which are in the sense of the letter extremely confusing if we think of God as existing in three beings or as three beings, and yet which appear to convey that idea:
"If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever."
