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Jesus's Farewell Prayer concludes with the petition 'I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them' — making the mutual indwelling of divine love the goal of the entire incarnational mission. The phrase 'declared thy name' (egnōrisa to onoma sou) employs the Old Testament language of God making himself known through his acts (Exodus 6:3; Ezekiel 36:23), but now the revelation is Jesus himself as the name's definitive declaration. The remarkable claim that the Father's love for the Son is to become the interior experience of believers — 'the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them' — is the most expansive statement of trinitarian participation in the Fourth Gospel. This verse underlies the entire mystical theological tradition from John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart to contemporary perichoresis theology.