who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Hence I wonder if the following translation can give a better explanation about the precise difference between a “God” giver of the name (who seems quasi to surrender himself before Jesus), and the “God the Father” who receives the final glory:
who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God [the Demiurge] also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father [not the Creator].
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God [the Demiurge] also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father [not the Creator].
An implication of this Gnostic interpretation of the hymn is that the Demiurge (not the supreme god) concedes a very Demiurgical name (“YHWH-saves”) to Christ only after the victory of the latter on the former. The Demiurge is only one of the beings of the entire universe who has to kneel before the Son of Father. In this sense, he does so “to the glory of the supreme god the Father”, who is distinct from himself.
This interpretation has a particular vantage: it explains the Gnostic interpretation of the name “YHWH-saves” for the gnostic Christ, notoriously enemy of YHWH. He was called "Jesus" only after he moves the Creator “to save” the souls held prisoners by him in the Sheol.
Only after the conversion of the demiurge.