What is the force of this name, as applied to Himself, by our Lord?
I. We have in it, Christ putting out His hand to draw us to Himself, identifying Himself with us.
II. We have, just as distinctly, Christ, by the use of this name, in a very real sense distinguishing Himself from us and claiming to hold a unique and solitary relation to mankind. And then we have Christ, by the use of this name in its connection with the ancient prophecy, pointing us onward to the wonderful future. The name carries with it (1) a blessed message of the present activity and perpetual manhood of the risen Lord. (2) A reminder of the second coming of that perfect manhood to be our Judge.
A. Maclaren, A Year's Ministry,1st series, p. 289.
References: John 12:34. Preacher's Monthly,vol. iii., p. 219. John 12:35. Literary Churchman Sermons,p. 108.