Philippians 2:9

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name.

Exalted him ... The exaltation here is contrasted not with the pre-existent eternal Godhead of Christ, but with the humiliation of his incarnation, the one new element in it being in this, that "He is exalted in the very nature in which he died."[29] Thus human nature has been elevated and made to sit on the right hand of God in the person of Christ.

The name which is above every name ... Dummelow said, "This name is the completed title, The Lord Jesus Christ.[30] The name in view here "is Lord, [@kurios], the Old Testament name for God."[31] "In light of Philippians 2:11, the supreme name is that of `Lord.' The root meaning of this term ([@kurios]) was used in Septuagint (LXX) to translate the divine name Yahweh."[32] The word "Lord" denotes rulership based upon competent and authoritative power. The identity of the expression Lord Jesus Christ with the sacred unpronounceable name of GOD as known to the Jews was commented upon thus by Taylor:

God changed the ineffable name into a name utterable by man, and desirable by the world; the majesty is all arrayed in robes of mercy. The tetragrammaton, adorable mystery of the patriarchs, is made firm for pronunciation and expression when it becomes the name of the Lord's Christ.[33]

This writer, because of John 17th chapter, strongly inclines to Dummelow's identification of this name as "The Lord Jesus Christ." For extensive notes on "thy name," see my Commentary on John, John 17:3f. Christ himself first revealed the sacred compound title Jesus Christ in John 17:3, the very night in which he declared himself to be the Christ.

[29] James Macknight, op. cit., p. 427.

[30] J. R. Dummelow, Commentary on the Holy Bible (New York: Macmillan Company, 1937), p. 973.

[31] Robert H. Mounce, op. cit., p. 765.

[32] R. P. Martin, op. cit., p. 104.

[33] H. A. A. Kennedy, (quoting Taylor), op. cit., p. 439.