To what name does Didache X refer?

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"Didst create all things for thy Name's sake"

This is a phrase which means "for thy glory"

Psalm 23 (DRB)

A psalm for David.

The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing. 2 He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment: 3 he hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name's sake. 4 For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me. 5 Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly is it! 6 And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

Ezekiel 20:44 (DRB)

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have done well by you for my own name's sake, and not according to your evil ways, nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 26:19 (DRB)

And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created, to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.

This could also be a type of Jesus, since "all things have been created through him and for him" (Colossians 1:16).

"We give thanks to thee, O Holy Father, for thy Holy Name which thou didst make to tabernacle in out hearts"

This is, seemingly, an adaptation of or allusion to the priestly prayer of Jesus in John 17 (11-12):

...Holy Father, keep them in thy name [which] thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.

A few things:

  • The be "lost" or damned is to not be kept in the Name of the Father
  • Jesus 'has' the Name of the Father (Cf. Exodus 23:21)
  • Jesus prays that the Father will continue to keep them in His name even after He leaves them for heaven

Philippians 2:5-11

5 Let this disposition be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, being by nature in the form of God, did not deem equality with God robbery, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being made in the likeness of men. And being found as man, 8 he humbled himself to the point of death: even the death of the cross. 9 For which reason also God greatly exalted him, and gave him the name that is above every name: 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow—of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth—11 and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

It seems that the divine life, authority, or power is meant by "name" when it is יהוהs given to someone. As such, in the Eucharistic context where God made His name to dwell in their hearts, this is the life-giving body, blood, soul, divinity of Jesus these words are in thanks for (Cf. John 6:57).

There is a similar part in the Tridentine Liturgy which says:

O God, Who in creating man didst exalt his nature very wonderfully and yet more wonderfully didst establish it anew: by the mystery signified in the mingling of this water and wine, grant us to have part in the Godhead of Him Who hath vouchsafed to share our humanity, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God; world without end. Amen.

This is similar to the 'gave man gifts of mundane food and drink, but then gave him spiritual food and drink; humanity, divine life' theme of chapter X.

Cf. 2 Peter 1:3.

It could also therefore be the Holy Ghost, through which the Father and the Son dwell in the hearts of men.

All three share "the Name" (Matthew 28:19), since the Son and the Father are essentially מלכי יהוה—communicators of the presence and divinity of the Father,having it themselves—or rather being the very communication of God itself (John 1:1).

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