...religion), the which St. Paul here doth express in these words concerning our blessed Saviour ; " Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God ; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness...

...Paul says, (Phil. ii: 5, 6, 7,) "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God ; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness...

...that is, by creation. Christ therefore having received all these things from the Father, and " being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God," namely, because he had obtained them by gift, not by robbery. For if this passage imply his coequality...

...a man : Nary. 9. For have this sentiment in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus ; who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal himself to God : But debased himself, taking the form of a servant, made to the likeness of men, and...

...service, as to the Lord, and not to men. It is to Christ, God manifested in the flesh ; to him, who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God, but humbled himself, taking on him the condition of a slave, fjwpffiv Sov\ov \a@aiv ; it is to this infinitely...

...God can help and deliver them from our hands. 17. They were such followers of Christ (who when he was in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God) that being set in such glory they suffered torments, neither once, nor twice, but often and again,...

...himself or a substitute, that that substitute should have been found in the person of Him who, being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God—that the Invisible himself should have assumed a material form, taking up the very dust we trod...

...wearying in well-doing. ' Brethren, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal witli God ; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, c.nd was made...

...i. 6). Is the Father to be honoured? so is the Son (John v. 23). No wonder, then, if Christ, ' being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God' (Phil. ii. 6). He did not think he robbed God of any glory by saying himself was equal to him. And...

...the power of death for a time. Being lorn, and that in a low condition. Phil. ii. 6-8: " Who, being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God ; but made himself of not reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness...