Philippians 2:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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), 1 Corinthians 13:1; and, in a way proper to them, can confess, or express, their adoration of Christ, Revelation 7:9-12, either with delight, or by a forced subjection, Revelation 6:16, and acknowledge that he is Lord, i.e. of glory, Romans 11:36 1 Corinthians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 8:6, the Son of God, 2 Corinthians 4:5 Hebrews 1:2,4, having only power to command the soul and conscience, James 4:12, and to save, Hebrews 7:27, being Lord both of the dead and of the living, Romans 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, Proverbs 10:1, with 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Ephesians 1:6: or the Father doth most glorify the Son in his exaltation, who had most glorified him in his humiliation, 1 Thessalonians 12:28, with 1 Thessalonians 17:5,6.