That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Ver. 10. That at the name] Gr. In the name. The Papists stiffly defend the ceremony of bowing at the name of Jesus, to countenance the adoration of their deified images, altars, and their host; teaching in their pulpits, that Christ himself on the cross bowed his head on the right side, to reverence his own name, which was written over it. a But name is here put for person, bowing of the knee for inward subjection. It is taken out of Isaiah 45:23 .
a Sir Edwin Sands in Spec. Europ.