<p>17:26 <i>And I declared to them Your Name, and will declare it, so that the love with which You loved me may be in them, and I in them</i>- The second declaration of the Name was in the cross. On 19:19-22 I note that the Name was particularly declared upon the cross, and that the title over the cross in Hebrew was comprised of four words, the first letter of each spelling the YHWH Name. All the words of God, the essence of His Name, were summed up in that death. &quot;I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me... I have declared unto them thy name&quot; (:8, 26). &quot;I have proclaimed the name of the Lord&quot; (Dt. 32:3 LXX) was surely in the Lord's mind; Moses did that just before his death. Particularly on the cross we see the very essence of love, which is at the core of the Name. Having loved His own, He loved us there unto the end, to the end of the very concept of love and beyond (Jn. 13:1). He knew that in His death, He would shew &quot;greater love&quot; than any man had or could show. There He declared the Name and character of God, so that the love of God would be within us. &quot;Hereby perceive we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren&quot; (1 Jn. 3:16 Gk.). The death of the cross was therefore the very definition of love; love is a crucifixion-love, a conscious doing of that which is against the grain of our nature. We <i>must therefore</i> respond by showing that love to our brethren. It is not an option. To be unloving is to deny the very essence of the cross of Christ.</p><p>The idea of indwelling love again alludes to the indwelling of the Spirit, which was given to us through the Lord's surrender to us of His spirit on the cross. It is through the Lord's indwelling of us in this way that we love one another as He loved us. This is why John's letters have so much to say about love, and about how hatred of our brethren is a sign that we are not spiritual, are not indwelt by the spirit of the Son.</p>