Philippians 2:7 (WEB)
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
Catechism · 8
The Sacrament of Baptism
“Jesus' gesture is a manifestation of his self-emptying.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Phil 2:7.
Sin
“In this proud self-exaltation, sin is diametrically opposed to the obedience of Jesus, which achieves our salvation.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Phil 2:6-9.
In the Age of the Church
“In the newness of the Spirit, they also composed hymns and canticles in the light of the unheard - of event that God accomplished in his Son: his Incarnation, his death which conquered death, his Resurrection, and Ascension to the right hand of the Father.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Phil 2:6-11; Col 1:15-20; Eph 5:14; 1 Tim 3:16; 6:15-16; 2 Tim 2:11-13.
The Son of God Became Man
“This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking "the form of a slave".” — Catechism footnote: Phil 2:7.
Jesus Died Crucified
“By sending his own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God "made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:21; cf. Phil 2:7; Rom 8:3.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“Disfigured by sin and death, man remains "in the image of God," in the image of the Son, but is deprived "of the glory of God," of his "likeness." the promise made to Abraham inaugurates the economy of salvation, at the culmination of which the Son himself will assume that "image"” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 1:14; Phil 2:7.
“These songs proclaim the meaning of Jesus' Passion and show how he will pour out the Holy Spirit to give life to the many: not as an outsider, but by embracing our "form as slave."” — Catechism footnote: Phil 2:7.
Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life
“Entirely dependent on Christ who gives mission and authority, ministers are truly "slaves of Christ," in the image of him who freely took "the form of a slave" for us.” — Catechism footnote: Phil 2:7.
Fathers and councils · 108
Augustine of Hippo
“…deemed it meet to exhibit an example in His own person, “who thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant;” in order that He might be created Man in the beginning of His ways, the Word by whom all things were made.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“Even now, after the Life is descended to you, will ye not ascend and live?” — editor's note: “The Son of God,” says Augustin in another place, “became a son of man, that the sons of men might be made sons of God.” He put off the form of God—that by…
Read the whole comment“…in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father;” those books have not.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–11.
Read the whole comment“For even He the Beloved, and the Only One of the Father, “emptied Himself” of His glory; and was made man, like a child of the Jews, that were “ignorant of God’s righteousness,” and proudly boasting of their own righteousness as peculiarly theirs.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“For when Himself in form of a servant appeared on earth, they that crucified Him said, “He is not God.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Which I suppose to be more fitly taken of Christ, because, being made in the likeness of men, He was thought by those by whom He was despised to be comparable to other men: for He was even “reckoned among the unrighteous,” but for this purpose, that He might be judged.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“We are servants: but for our sakes our Lord took the garb of a servant: for us who are mortal the Immortal One deigned to die, for our sakes He showed His example of resurrection.” — editor's note: Philip. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…unless we can comprehend that it is the same thing for the Son to be taught as to be begotten of the Father.…“He took upon Himself the form of a servant;” for when He had assumed this form, men of more advanced age might think Him fit to be taught as a boy; but He whom the Father taught, had more understanding…” — editor's note: Philip. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle saith, “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”” — editor's note: Philip. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“…to signify “Revelation,” the idea may be, that He was now no more to be in the form of a servant, but in that form in which He is equal with the Father; as He promised to those who loved Him when He said, according to the testimony of John, “And I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“Let him sound to us also the note, “We saw Him, and He had no form nor comeliness.—He made Himself of no reputation, taking upon Him the form of a servant, made in the likeness of men, and in fashion found as man.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“Therefore the Teacher of humility, Christ, first “emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, made in the likeness of men, and found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, made obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“For he says, “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and was found in fashion as a man.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“But this is said, not on account of any inequality of the Word of God and of the Holy Spirit, but as though the presence of the Son of man with them would be a hindrance to the coming of Him, who was not less, because He did not “empty Himself, taking upon Him the form of a servant,” as the Son did.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7
Read the whole comment“…less than the Father, because He Himself has said, “My Father is greater than I;” and He is less than Himself, because it is said of Him, He emptied Himself;” and He is less than the Holy Spirit, because He Himself says, “Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7
Read the whole comment“But there is a sight of that form of mine, in which when I was, I thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but in order to take this form I emptied myself.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“…understood to be equal to the Father according to the form of God in which He is, and less than the Father according to the form of a servant which He took; in which form He was found to be not only less than the Father, but also less than the Holy Spirit; and not only so, but less even than Himself,—not than…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“How could that be, when He was still “in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God?”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7
Read the whole comment“…cannot see God, “He emptied Himself;” not by changing His own divinity, but by assuming our changeableness: and “taking upon Him the form of a servant” He came to us into this world,” who “was in this world,” because “the world was made by Him;” that He might be an example upwards to those who see God, an…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7
Read the whole comment“David’s Lord, “who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God;” and David’s Son, in that “He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment““Who when He was in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself, taking upon Him the form of a servant.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“He left His Father, in that here He did not show Himself as equal with the Father; but ‘emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant.’” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“He hath the way, “The Word was made flesh;” He hath the way, “He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“But He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and found in fashion as a man.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“Take away His birth of a virgin, take away that He emptied Himself, “taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and found in fashion as a man;” take away this, and where is the combat, where the contest? where the trial? where the victory, which no battle has preceded?” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“For the Lord was pleased to “take on Him the form of a servant,” and “having taken the form of a servant” in it to be fed by servants, by reason of His condescension, not His condition.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Which words, when rightly understood, are all understood to be about the Lord Jesus Christ, under the name of David, on account of the form of a servant, which the same Mediator assumed from the virgin of the seed of David.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…found in fashion as a man: He humbled Himself, being made obedient unto death” (and lest any kind of death should please thee), “even the death of the cross.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“…alike without time, alike Creator and disposer of times; and yet because He came in time, and took the form of a servant, and in condition was found as a man, He seeks the glory of the Father, not His own; what oughtest thou to do, O man, who, when thou doest anything good, seekest thy own glory; but when thou doest…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment““He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“Accordingly, as respects the form of God wherein He is equal with the Father, the Son also is invisible: but, in order to be seen of men, He assumed the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men, became visible to man.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“And why should we wonder, if He girded Himself with a towel, who took upon Him the form of a servant, and was found in the likeness of a man?” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment““Believe in God, and believe in” Him, who, by nature and not by robbery, is equal with God; for He emptied Himself; not, however, by losing the form of God, but by taking the form of a servant.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“I know, indeed, that Thou didst empty Thyself; but in taking the form of a servant, it was neither that Thou didst lay down the form of God as something to return to, or that Thou lost it as something to be recovered; and yet Thou didst come,…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment““But He emptied Himself, taking upon Him the form of a servant;” and so, not losing the former, but assuming the latter, and emptying Himself in that very respect wherein He stood forth before us here in a humbler state than that wherein He still remained with the Father.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For He emptied Himself in assuming the form of a servant; in which, also, for the purpose of executing judgment, He seems to have commended His obedience, when He said, “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“But His glory begins with the clause where he says, “Wherefore God also hath exalted Him;” and reaches on to the words, “is in the glory of God the Father.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7–11. So Augustin, with a few others of the early fathers, incorrectly renders the last clause instead of that given by our English version, which is…
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.15Book IV
“And with respect to His having descended among men, He was “previously in the form of God;” and through benevolence, divested Himself (of His glory), that He might be capable of being received by men.” — editor's note: Cf. Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus IV.18Book IV
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 5–9.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis IV.3Book IV
“…“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but divested Himself (of His glory) taking upon Himself the form of a servant;” since He undoubtedly restored it to the form of God by means of better examples and training, and recalled it to that fulness of which He had divested Himself.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Now assuredly “possession” in the allegorical language of the Proverbs marks that slave Who for our sakes “took upon Him the form of a slave.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“For as, “being made in the form of a servant,” He was formed in the essence of a servant, not taking upon Him the form merely, apart from the essence, but the essence is involved in the sense of “form,” so, surely, he who says that He is “in the form of God” signified essence by “form.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…it is said that it is not pious to refer the word “made” to the Divine Nature of the Only-begotten, but that it is to be referred to that “form of a servant,” which came into being by the Incarnation, in the due time of His appearing in the flesh; and, on the other hand, those who press the phrase the contrary way…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
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Jerome
“Our Lord and Saviour, Who though He was in the form of God, condescended to take the form of a servant, and became obedient to the Father even unto death, yea the death of the cross—what necessity was there for Him to be born with members which He was not going to use?” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“Did not even the Saviour humble Himself, taking the form of a servant and being made obedient to the Father unto death, even the death of the cross, that He might save us by His passion?” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Wherefore God also highly exalted Him, and gave Him a Name which is above every name; that in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.’” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 5–11.
Read the whole comment“…of His ways for His works;’ so by Paul, ‘Become so much better than the Angels;’ and again, ‘He emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant;’ and again, ‘Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Jesus, who was faithful to…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“And again the Apostle saying, ‘Who being in the form of God,’ has not introduced the reason, till ‘He took on Him the form of a servant;’ for then he continues, ‘He humbled Himself unto death, even the death of the cross;’ for it was for this that He both became flesh and took the form of a servant.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“Nor, because the Son that was in the form of God took upon Him the form of a servant was He deprived of His Godhead.” — editor's note: Ib. vv. 6, 7.
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John Damascene
“…pray for release from them, or suffer what befel from without, but He was moved in conformity with His nature, the Word willing and allowing Him œconomically to suffer that, and to do the things proper to Him, that the truth might be confirmed by the works of nature.” — editor's note: The term is μορφή, as in Phil. ii. 6, 7.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Though thou be a slave, though thou be poor, be not any whit distressed; He who took the form of a servant despises not servants.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“For ‘he counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself taking the form of a servant; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself unto death, even the death of the cross.’” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–8.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““So the Word came down not naked, but after having been made flesh, not in the form of God, but in the form of a servant.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7
Read the whole comment“For we say that ‘He emptied Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant.’” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7
Read the whole comment“Retaining in their memory all that they can collect concerning the suffering, humiliation, emptying of Himself, and so-called poverty, and everything of which the Saviour for our sake accepted the acquired name, they bring forward those passages to disprove His eternal…” — editor's note: κένωσις, cf. Phil. ii. 7
Read the whole comment“If any one says that in the Passion of the Cross the Son of God sustained its pain by Godhead, and not by reasonable soul and flesh which He had assumed in the form of a servant, as saith the Holy Scripture, let him be anathema.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7
Read the whole comment“…Jesus; who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 5, 6, 7
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…and as if well-nigh He had it not by reason of His humanity, and as if it were in the way of grace, He “receives the name which is above every name,” according to the word of the blessed Paul.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7–9.
Read the whole comment“But, as I have already said, it was the “form of the servant” that spake and suffered these things.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“And they in reply said, We have seen the Creator of all things in the “form of a servant,” and being ignorant of the mystery of the economy, we were lashed with fear.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“This, he says, is the form of the servant, and this the necessity of the Word of God coming down into the womb of a virgin.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“And that this is what has been declared, “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
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Clement of Alexandria
“But if thou dost not believe the prophets, but supposest both the men and the fire a myth, the Lord Himself shall speak to thee, “who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but humbled Himself,”—He, the merciful God, exerting Himself to save man.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“Paul says, speaking of the Lord, “Because He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant,” calling the outward man servant, previous to the Lord becoming a servant and wearing flesh.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…say that God is One, neither dividing His Son from Him, as do the heathen, nor denying, with the Jews, that He was begotten of the Father before all worlds, and afterwards born of the Virgin; nor yet, like Sabellius, confounding the Father with the Word, and so maintaining that Father and Son are one and the same…” — editor's note: The original is ante tempora—“before the ages”—“before time was.” Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6; Phil. ii. 6–8; Col. i. 15 (πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως—“first-born of all…
Read the whole comment“He is seen as man, He is adored as Lord.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment““But when the fulness of time was come, God sent His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 4. Note on Gal. iv. 4, cited in § 94.—St. Ambrose has factum where St. Paul originally wrote γενόμενον, rendered “born” in the A.V. St. Paul…
Read the whole comment“And how was He “made lower,” except that, “being in the form of God, He thought it not a prey that He should be equal with God, but emptied Himself;” not, indeed, parting with what He was, but taking up what He was not, for “He took the form of a servant.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“In like manner our adversaries commonly make a difficulty of the Son’s obedience, forasmuch as it is written: “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient even unto death.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“It is now sufficiently made plain that the Father is not God in solitude, without the Son, and that the Son cannot be thought of as God alone, without the Father, for it is in respect of His flesh that we read that the Son of God was “made,” not in respect of His generation from God the Father.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7; Gal. iv. 4; S. John i. 1, 2, cpd. with 14.
Read the whole comment“Christ is the beginning of humility, for He took the form of a servant, though in the majesty of His power He was equal with God the Father.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 23; Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Finally, the Apostle himself saith to the Philippians, that “being made in the likeness of man, and found in outward appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, being made obedient even unto death.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“What was it, in regard whereof the Scripture called Him “Servant,” but His flesh?—seeing that “He did not hold equality with God as a prey, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made into the likeness of men, and found in fashion as a man.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment““For,” it says, “He took upon Him the form of a servant.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“What could show greater obedience than that we should follow Christ’s example, “Who, being found in fashion as a man, humbled Himself and became obedient even unto death?”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“For, “being made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death,” in order that through that obedience we might see His glory, “the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father,” according to Saint John.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“For Christ our Lord, though He was in the form of God, emptied Himself so as to take on Himself the form of man, which He wished to enrich with the virtue of His works.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For both in the patriarch Joseph was there a type of Christ, and Christ Himself came in the truth of His Body, “Who counted it not robbery that He should be equal with God, but took on Him the form of a servant,” because of our fall, that is to say, taking slavery upon Himself and not shrinking from suffering.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
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John Chrysostom
“Therefore just as “the form of a slave” ( Philip. ii. 6, 7 ) expresses no other thing than a man without variation [from human nature], so also “the form of God” expresses no other thing than God.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Just as He Himself also when consoling His disciples said, “If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice, because I go to My Father” ( John xiv. 28 ), and “My Father is greater than I.” But how did He not glorify Himself, He who “made Himself of no reputation” ( Philip. ii. 7 ), He who gave Himself up?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““When we were enemies” (see Rom. v. 10 ), she “reconciled” us, she wrought innumerable blessings; she persuaded the Son of God to become a slave, and to empty Himself [of His glory]. ( Phil. ii. 7.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“He who disdained not to “take upon Him the form of a servant” ( Philip. ii. 7 ), would much less disdain to be present at the marriage of servants; He who sat down “with publicans and sinners” ( Matt. ix. 13 ), would much less refuse to sit down with those present at the marriage.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“As Paul cries aloud, saying, “Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant.” ( Phil. ii. 6, 7.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Wherefore Paul said, that “He emptied Himself.” ( Philip. ii. 7.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And to show that this is true, hear what Paul saith, “He emptied Himself, and gave Himself for us.” ( Philip. ii. 7.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“As when Paul saith, that “He so loved us, as to give Himself for us” ( Eph. v. 2 ); and, “He emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant” ( Philip. ii. 7 ); and, “As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you.” ( c. xv. 9.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“How was He a rod? how Son of man? how was Mary His mother? how was He of David’s seed? how did he “take the form of a servant?”how “was the Word made flesh?”and how saith Paul to the Romans, “Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is God over all?”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 102Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“…apostolic expression, understood and spoken in a sense which is not apostolic, that our Saviour was made in the likeness of Men and found in fashion as a Man, as though by these words was expressed, not the human form, but some delusive phantom and appearance.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment “This is the wish of our schoolmaster the law, of the prophets who intervened between Christ and the law, of Christ who is the fulfiller and end of the spiritual law; of the emptied Godhead, of the assumed flesh, of the novel union between God and man, one consisting of two, and both in one.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“For Christ also likewise, when it was possible for him to abide in His own honour and deity, not only so far emptied Himself as to take the form of a slave, but also endured the cross, despising the shame, that he might by His own sufferings destroy sin, and by death slay death.” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…expressions which make for your ignorant arrogance, such as “My God and your God,” or greater, or created, or made, or sanctified; Add, if you like, Servant and Obedient and Gave and Learnt, and was commanded, was sent, can do nothing of Himself, either say, or judge, or give, or will.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
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Leo the Great
“For which reason God also exalted Him, and gave Him a name which is above every name: that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow of things in heaven, of things on the earth, and of things under the earth, and that every tongue may confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–11.
Read the whole comment“And what is suggested to our hearts by these and many other references, save that we should in all things be renewed in His image Who, remaining “in the form of God,” deigned to “take the form” of sinful flesh?” — editor's note: Cf. Phil. ii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore God also exalted Him, and gave Him a name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven, of things on earth, and of things below, and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 5–11.
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Basil the Great
“…tearing off a few of the Apostle’s statements, constructed for himself this impious fabrication, asserting that the Lord assumed the “form of a servant,” and not the servant himself, and that He was made in the “likeness,” but that actual manhood was not assumed by Him.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“And the fire or the sponge should annihilate the Epistle to the Philippians, lest Marcion should read again in it, And was found in fashion as a man, and say Christ’s body was only a phantasm and not a body.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“But in us the preacher of the Gospel by the Spirit of Christ Who spoke through him, instils the knowledge of this His proper nature when he says, Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to grasp at that He was equal with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7. The sense in which Hilary understands non rapinam arbitratus est, is to be seen in his explanation, non sibi rapiens esse se æqualem Deo (see…
Read the whole comment“…and demonstrates, when he says, He humbled Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of a man and being formed in fashion as a man: that is, in that He took the form of a servant, He was born in the form of a man: in that He was made in the likeness of a man, and formed in fashion as a…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
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John Cassian
“But none can descend from heaven except the Word of God: who certainly “being in the form of God, emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“…up to a certain point how great a thing they were praying for, that God dwelling in God, and continuing in the form and bosom of God, might “empty Himself,” and take the form of a servant and submit Himself to endure all the bitterness and insults of the passion, and undergo punishment for His goodness, and what is…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…of a servant,” and “the word was made flesh,” and “humbled Himself by becoming obedient unto death,” and “who for our sakes, though He was rich, became poor,” tell me, then, who He is, who was born of the Holy Ghost, and was conceived by the overshadowing of God?” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8; S. John i. 14; 2 Cor. viii. 9.
Read the whole comment“Who still remaining with the Father and in the Father, Being of one substance with the Father, did (as the Apostle says), “Take the form of a servant, and humble Himself even unto death, the death of the Cross:” and (as the Creed says) “was born of the Virgin Mary, crucified under Pontius Pilate, and was buried.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“The one says, “And I will be like the most High;” the other, “Though He was in the form of God, yet He emptied Himself and took the form of a servant, and humbled Himself and became obedient unto death.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–8.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Mark
“In which word, He manifests the mystery of His “emptying himself,” [see Phil. 2:7-8] that is, of His incarnation, and the sovereignty of His divine nature, in that He here asserts, that He came willingly into the world.” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“…He is to come upon the clouds, yet rode on a colt and so entered Jerusalem; and though He is God and Son of God, He took upon Him the likeness of a servant; and though He was (for others) rest from all weariness, yet was Himself tired with the weariness of the journey; though He was the fountain that quenches…” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7, 8.
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Tertullian
“…Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant,” not the reality, “and was made in the likeness of man,” not a man, “and was found in fashion as a man,” not in his substance, that is to say, his flesh; just as if to a substance there did not accrue both form and likeness and fashion.” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6, 7.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Wherefore also God exalted Him, and gave Him a name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, of things in earth, and of infernal things, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–11.
Read the whole comment“For which cause also God hath exalted Him, and hath given Him a name, that it may be above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should be bowed, of things heavenly, and earthly, and infernal; and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in glory of God the Father.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 6–11.
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