...for evermore, underwent, when he humbled himself: He -was found in fashion as a man ; he took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross. Behold here the Sun of righteousness under an (almost total) eclipse : he that was eternally...

...he had assumed our nature, and " was found in fashion as a man," yet was he from all eternity " in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God." He was " the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person." He was " one with...

...free and spontaneous a manner. He who assumed nothing in making himself equal with God " took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross."|| In his mysterious descent, he passed by superior orders of being, to invest himself with...

...free and spontaneous a manner. He who assumed nothing in making himself equal with God " took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross."j In his mysterious descent, he passed by superior orders of beins, to invest himself with human...

...to the " washing of his disciples' feet1:" yea, though he was in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet he took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." " This is the mind that should...

...rich, for our sakes becoming poor, that we through his poverty might be rich ; — see him who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, voluntarily taking upon himself the form of a servant, and humbling himself and becoming obedi cut...

...the testimony of all Scripture ; he came not to rule, but to be the servant of all. He who was " in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God," in becoming man came not as creation's lord, but " took on him the form of a servant.. ..and, being...

...And that God might be just in justifying the ungodly, though he was in the form of God, and therefore thought it no robbery to be equal with God, yet he took upon him the form of a servant, even human nature. In that nature he obeyed, and thereby fulfilled the whole moral law in...

...condescension of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, " though he was rich, became poor' — who, though " he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, made himself of no reputation, taking upon him the form of a servant and being made in the likeness...

...his equal in dignity and nature. I answer, no more than when Paul saith, that Christ "when he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, made himself of no reputation, took upon him the shape of a servant, and became obedient to the death,...