I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Ver. 8. I am the Lord.] I, and no heathen petty god, as I have plainly and plentifully proved, nemine contradicente.
That is my name.] God, though he be above all name (when Manoah inquired after his name, the answer was, It is wonderful - i.e., far above thy conception), yet here we have his proper name, Jehovah, which is also called his glory, because incommunicable to any creature.
And my glory will I not give to another.] To his Son Christ he hath given it, Joh 17:2 who, although he is Alius, another yet he is not Aliud different from the Father, but of the same nature and essence. God hath given being to all things, life to many, sense to others, reason to men and angels, his glory he will not give to any. Excellently hereupon Bernard, a My glory I will not, &c.; what then wilt thou give us, Lord? what wilt thou give us? My peace, saith he, I give you; my peace I leave unto you. It is enough for me, Lord; I thankfully take what thou leavest, and leave what thou keepest to thyself, &c.
a Serm. xiii. in Cant.