Tag: New Testament Exegesis

“To Me Every Knee Shall Bow”: Philippians 2:9–11, Isaiah 45, and the Identification of Jesus as Yahweh

“To Me Every Knee Shall Bow”: Philippians 2:9–11, Isaiah 45, and the Identification of Jesus as Yahweh

Writing about humility, Paul reaches for the highest thing he knows: Yahweh's irrevocable oath from Isaiah 45 — "I am God, and there is no other" — and applies it directly to Jesus. Every knee. Every tongue. The divine name. This article examines what Paul is doing, answers three unitarian objections, and establishes from Scripture and the early Fathers that the identification holds.