Jehovah's Witnesses are right to love the divine Name — more right than they may know. A look at Philippians 2, Isaiah's refusal to give his glory to another, and the One through whom all things were made.
Paul applies YHWH's self-sworn oath from Isaiah 45 — the oath sworn by the one beside whom there is no other — directly to Jesus in Philippians 2:10-11. This article argues that the choice is not a loose borrowing of Isaianic language but an identification of Jesus within the divine identity of YHWH. Six sections engage the steel-man of the opposing case, the genuine concessions the text requires, the narrative logic of morphē and harpagmos, the oath's exclusivity logic, the patristic reception, and the open door for the reader willing to follow Paul where the text leads.
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