II. On What It Rests:

On the Fatherhood of God.

On the confidence that God wills that His Name should be known. In other words, the petition rests on the assurance of God's fatherly love, which cannot but will that His children should know their Father as He is.

On the fact that men need the knowledge of the Name.On the conviction that men cannot attain it for themselves.That Christ is the great means of His hallowing His Name.His finished work does not render this prayer unnecessary.I have declared Thy name, and will declare it.'That this is to be issue of all. A grand prophecy.