Hallowed be your name

7. Hallowed be thy name. This is the first of the six petitions, whereof the prayer itself is composed. The name of God is God himself; the nature of God, so far as it can be discovered to man: it means therefore, together with his existence, all his attributes or perfections――his eternity, particularly signified by his great and incommunicable name Jehovah, as the apostle John translates it, τὸ ἀ, καὶ τὸ ω, ἀρχὴ καὶ τέλος. ὁ ὤν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος· The alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, he which is, and which was, and which is to come:――His fulness of being, denoted by his other great name, I am that I am――His omnipresence――His omnipotence; who is indeed the only agent in the material world; all matter being essentially dull and inactive, and moving only as it is moved by the finger of God: and he is the spring of action in every creature, visible and invisible; which could neither act nor exist, without the continued influx and agency of his almighty power――His wisdom, clearly deduced from the things that are seen, from the goodly order of the universe――His trinity in unity and unity in trinity, discovered to us in the very first line of his written word ‏ברא אלהים‎: literally the Gods created, a plural noun joined with a verb of the singular number: as well as in every part of his subsequent revelations, given by the mouth of all his holy prophets and apostles――His essential purity and holiness――and above all, his love, which is the very brightness of his glory.