Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God:
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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
The form of God is absolutely the same as the essence. Yet when he came to be in “the form of a slave,” he took form in the essence of the slave, not assuming a naked form for himself. Yet he is not thereby divorced from his essence as God. Undoubtedly when Paul said that he was “in the form of God,” he was indicating the essence along with the form. .
