Charles Ellicott Commentary Philippians 2:9

"Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;" — Philippians 2:9 (ASV)

Therefore God also has highly exalted him.—The exaltation, like the humiliation, belongs to Him as Son of Man, for He was “lifted up,” both on the cross and in the Ascension. It raises Him to the throne of the Mediatorial kingdom, which He entered by the Ascension, sitting at the right hand of God until He has put all enemies under His feet. He is then ready to deliver up the kingdom to the Father, that God may be all in all (see 1 Corinthians 15:24–28). For it is the “Son of Man” who comes in the clouds of heaven (Daniel 7:13; Matthew 26:64) and has authority to execute judgment (John 5:27).

Has given him a name.—Or, rather, the Name above every name. “The Name” (for this seems to be the best reading) is clearly “the Name” of God. It is properly the name Jehovah, held in the utmost literal reverence by the Jews, and it came to signify (almost like “the Word”) the revelation of the presence of God. See Revelation 19:12-13, where the name which no one knew but Himself is the Word of God. This is, indeed, made clear by the following verse, for the adoration there described is in the original passage (Isaiah 45:23), claimed as the sole due of God Himself.

The name JESUS, “Jehovah the Saviour” (like “Jehovah our Righteousness,” in Jeremiah 23:6), does contain, as an integral element, the incommunicable name of God, while the addition of “Saviour” points to His true humanity. Therefore, in that Name—of Him who is at once God and Man—every knee is to bow with direct worship to Him.